severity 382029 normal
retitle 382029 gnome-gv gratuitously opens URLs from .recently-used
stop
Hi Christian,
> gnome-gv couldn't display the file here, too, but I did not notice any FTP
> connections.
>
> Which process exactly was it that you attached the strace to? Firefox or a
> still running gnome-gv process?
I attached to the still-running [parent] gnome-gv process (there was a
parent-child-grandchild trio!). The behaviour was the same when I
launched gnome-gv manually.
> The IP 208.113.133.22 is registered to
> munchies.dreamhost.com from "New Dream Network, LLC" in California. Does this
> ring any bell to you?
(Lightbulb!)
I'd noticed through whois that it was a dreamhost address, and I am a
dreamhost customer, but so are thousands of others so I thought nothing
of it. Had I performed a reverse-DNS lookup, I'd have recognised
"munchies" as an FTP server provided for customers to upload content to,
and I have accessed it (months ago) through nautilus.
$ strace -eopen,connect gnome-gv mazieres\:pnym.ps.gz 2>&1 | grep /raz/
open("/home/raz/.Xauthority", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/home/raz/.orbitrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/home/raz/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 13
open("/home/raz/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 13
open("/home/raz/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 13
open("/home/raz/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 13
open("/home/raz/.recently-used", O_RDWR) = 16
open("/home/raz/.local/share//mime/globs", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
open("/home/raz/.local/share//mime/magic", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 17
Bingo! There are several ftp://munchies.dreamhost.com/ entries
in /home/raz/.recently-used.
So, the bug is now that gnome-gv, or something that it loads, is
gratuitously opening URLs from .recently-used.
Thoughts?
- Raz
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