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Copying random directory trees from Scratchbox into debian armel VM: variously produces segfaults, assertion failures, dbus errors, shared library errors, missing icon errors, missing theme errors, eye twitch errors, insanity errors

I can report that running gvm under the qemu-arm in Maemo_Ubuntu_Lucid_Desktop_SDK_Virtual_Image_Final .7z (from https://www.fladnag.net/downloads/telephone/n900/tools/) also segfaults.

But... then I discovered the FREMANTLE_ARMEL directory in that VM....

Here's a rough example of what's I've copied in (I just learned that 50 xterm windows kind of... happened... but [being able to do] this is why you leave your terminals open, people ;P):

• usr/share/icons/*
• etc/dbus-1/
• etc/gconf
• etc/gnome-vfs-2.0
• etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
• etc/osso-af-init
• etc/pango/pango.modules
• gtk-2.0
• usr/lib/hildon*
• usr/bin/hildon-desktop
• usr/lib/libIMGegl.so*
• usr/lib/libSDL*
• usr/lib/libXcomposite.*
• usr/lib/libXcursor.*
• usr/lib/libXdamage.*
• usr/lib/libXfixes.*
• usr/lib/libXft.*
• usr/lib/libXi.*
• usr/lib/libXrandr.*
• usr/lib/libXrender.*
• usr/lib/libXtst.*
• usr/lib/libasound.*
• usr/lib/libatk-1.0.*
• usr/lib/libcairo.*
• usr/lib/libcanberra*
• usr/lib/libdbus*
• usr/lib/libfontconfig.so*
• usr/lib/libfreetype.so*
• usr/lib/libgconf*
• usr/lib/libgdk-x11*
• usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf*
• usr/lib/libgio-2.0.*
• usr/lib/libglib-2.0.*
• usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.*
• usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.*
• usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.*
• usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.*
• usr/lib/libgtk-x11*
• usr/lib/libhildon*
• usr/lib/libltdl.*
• usr/lib/libosso*
• usr/lib/libpango*
• usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so*
• usr/lib/libpangox*
• usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so*
• usr/lib/libpixman-1.*
• usr/lib/libpng12.*
• usr/lib/libpulse*
• usr/lib/libsrv_um.so*
• usr/lib/libtrackerclient.so*
• usr/lib/maemo*
• usr/bin/dbus*
• usr/bin/gconf*
• usr/lib/gconf2
• usr/lib/gio
• usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0
• usr/lib/gvfs
• usr/lib/libEGL.so*
• usr/lib/libGLES*
• usr/lib/libbookmarkengine.*
• usr/lib/libclutter-eglx-0.8.so.0
• usr/lib/libgconf2
• usr/lib/libgio-2.0.*
• usr/lib/libgnome*
• usr/lib/libgvfs*
• usr/lib/libhal*
• usr/lib/libiphb*
• usr/lib/libjpeg*
• usr/lib/libprofile.so.0*
• usr/lib/maemo-launcher
• usr/lib/pango
• usr/libexec
• usr/share/dbus-1/system-services
• usr/share/fonts/
• usr/share/icons/*
• usr/share/themes/alpha
• usr/share/themes/default

Unfortunately I don't seem to have recorded screenshots or dumps of this but I remember at one point seeing in strace that disk information being sent over D-Bus (I distinctly remember seeing the Trash entry) after I requested a file picker! Seemingly to no effect though, it still crashed in the end anyway. I don't know how close this might have been.