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kouros17

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[Solved] Thunar (1.6.10) crashing when moving files by drag and drop

I'm using manjaro 15.09 xfce and my problem is that thunar (1.6.10) crashing when moving files by drag and drop especially from desktop to thunar, although files moving to the new folder normally.
Opening thunar by terminal loading normally aswell without more info.

Last edited by kouros17 (2015-11-19 17:28:02)

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Thunar (1.6.10) crashing when moving files by drag and drop

Its a known bug. The patch in this bug report fixes it for me.

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kouros17

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Re: [Solved] Thunar (1.6.10) crashing when moving files by drag and drop

Its a known bug. The patch in this bug report fixes it for me.

Thanls a lot for the answer, but I am a bit confused.
What patch exactly?
Sorry for the newbie question, but what should I do?

Last edited by kouros17 (2015-11-19 18:38:27)

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Thunar (1.6.10) crashing when moving files by drag and drop

What patch exactly?

Currently, the patch is being tested by people and the results are being posted to that bug report.

Sorry for the newbie question, but what should I do?

You have three potential choices:
1. Wait for the patch to be officially accepted and a new release of Thunar published (and when your distro makes it available, simply install it)
2. Build Thunar yourself and include the patch. Not necessarily something a newbie would probably enjoy doing, but if your interested: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System. There is also the option of the AUR, but no-one has prepared a package with this fix yet.
3. There have also been some reports that reverting glib2 to version 2.44.1-1 also fixes the problem (most likely the cause of this bug is a change to glib2). Information about downgrading packages.

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kouros17

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Re: [Solved] Thunar (1.6.10) crashing when moving files by drag and drop

Thanks a lot ToZ for the info!

kouros17

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Re: [Solved] Thunar (1.6.10) crashing when moving files by drag and drop

Finally discovered that glib2 causing the problem.
Reverting glib2 to version 2.44.1-1 from 2.46.1-1 the problem solved.
ToZ thanks a lot again for your help.

Last edited by kouros17 (2015-11-20 15:22:49)