Bug#626076: Firefox crashes, error message: libfile.so: undefined symbol: gnome_vfs_unescape_string

[Jan Lapka]

Package: libgnomevfs2-0
Version: 1:2.24.4-1
Severity: normal

Firefox crashes, error message: libfile.so: undefined symbol: gnome_vfs_unescape_string

Originally this bug was filed against iceweasel (as may be related with #622975)
but was redirected here.

Originally this bug was filed against iceweasel (as maybe related with #622975)
but was redirected here.

Firefox crashes if:
- when I want open download manager window ( Tools -> Downloads ) and
  list is not empty (if list is empty everything is OK)
- when I want download file (any file)
- when I want open preferences window (Edit -> Preferences)

Maybe this is specific to my system. I use iceweasel and fvwm as
window manager.

Error message:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so: undefined symbol: gnome_vfs_unescape_string

(libgnomevfs2-0 -> libfile.so)
(aptitude why libgnomevfs2-0)
i   eclipse-plugin-cvs Depends    eclipse-platform (= 3.5.2-9) 
i A eclipse-platform   Depends    eclipse-rcp (= 3.5.2-9)      
i A eclipse-rcp        Recommends libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 1:2.17.90

What temporarly works (without remove gnome-vfs stuff and dependences):

(/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf)

# temporary solution (so far without any negative impact on other
# applications)
# comment this line to avoid firefox crash
#file: file

Janek

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 depends on:
ii  dbus                    1.4.8-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libacl1                 2.2.49-4         Access control list shared library
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.30-3         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.30-3         Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1          0.6.30-3         Avahi glib integration library
ii  libc6                   2.13-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.4.8-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.92-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgamin0 [libfam0]     0.1.10-2+b2      Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-6         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11             1.4.6-5          LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.28.6-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomevfs2-common     1:2.24.4-1       GNOME Virtual File System (common 
ii  libgnutls26             2.10.5-1+b1      the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libselinux1             2.0.98-1+b1      SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libxml2                 2.7.8.dfsg-2+b1  GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.4.8-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnomevfs2-extra            1:2.24.4-1 GNOME Virtual File System (extra m

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 suggests:
pn  fam                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  libgnomevfs2-bin              <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information