Re: [Arx-users] Segfault accessing the publix ArX archive

[Walter Landry]

Marc Recht <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I got another report of gnome-vfs having problems in 2.8.  My debian
> > testing machine was running 2.6 until today when it was upgraded to
> > 2.8.  Now I get a segfault.  So I guess the good news is that I can
> > debug this directly now ;)
> 
> This are indeed good news. The gnome-vfs bug is IMHO the only thing 
> preventing ArX running out of the box on NetBSD/OS X.

It turns out that the bug is quite simple.  In 2.6, gnome-vfs2 breaks
if you don't url-encode any http urls you give it.  In 2.8, it breaks
if you do.  Bah.

I'm still not sure why the backtrace showed garbage.  I got the same
thing.  In think it was walking all over itself in memory.

In any case, the fix is really simple: comment out this section

      if(location.substr(0,4)=="http")
        {
          /* Escape the string for http.  We can't use it for
             everything, because other servers don't do the
             conversion. */
          location=std::string(gnome_vfs_escape_host_and_path_string
                               (location.c_str()));
        }

in src/arx/include/gvfs.hpp (about lines 86-93).

Let me know if that works for you.

Walter