I first clicked on gzipped tar archive, and launched file-roller to unzip the archive, there is an error in file-roller which then after closing file-roller, my entire XFCE session goes away (logs me out) - losing what I was working on. this is repeatable, and launching file-roller on the same archive from an xterm has the same error, but the whole logging me out of xfce doesn't happen - it just quits quietly. I can uncompress the archive fine 'manually' using tar (this is a file-roller problem, I guess). I won't include the archive which causes the problem, since it is 19MB. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open archive which causes file-roller to throw an error from within xffm (I have file-roller associated with .tgz files) 2. close file-roller 3. all programs / session close instantly Actual Results: I was logged out / lost all my work Expected Results: just let file-roller die gracefully I am using the x86_64 version of xfce which comes with Fedora Core 4
I think I discovered what the bug in file-roller is (if that helps with the repeatability of this bug). When I select all the files (either ctrl-a or select the root of the file tree in the window) and tell it to extract, it complains about "/bin/sh: argument list is too long", this seems to happen for any archive with lots of files in it - e.g., a several different tarballs of source code files seems to do it.
(In reply to comment #1) > I think I discovered what the bug in file-roller is (if that helps with the > repeatability of this bug). Closed as 'invalid' since it seemed to be a file-roller issue...