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Builder crashes when using Select a folder... to open project and specific Projects directory is set

Description

If I have my Projects directory set to specifically /mnt/storage/Programming (I cannot seem to reproduce this with other paths, such as /mnt/storage/Music/Library or my home directory) and then open a subdirectory of /mnt/storage/Programming via the Select a folder... dialogue, Builder will momentarily freeze and shortly after crash. Log is available under the paragraph Other information. Having the Projects directory /mnt/storage/Programming and opening a directory that is not a subdirectory of said directory does not crash Builder, and similarly having a different Projects directory and opening a subdirectory of /mnt/storage/Programming does not crash Builder.

Reproduction

Note: I have only attempted to reproduce this on one PC so far, and I imagine it is likely not the path's name that is the culprit here, however I am not sure what it might be. I was thinking it was due to that I previously had put an override for /mnt/storage/Programming so that Builder could access it (seems Builder has full filesystem access now?), however I reset all overrides and the issuer persists.

  1. Set GNOME Builder's Project directory to /mnt/storage/Programming via Preferences
  2. Open a subdirectory of /mnt/storage/Programming via the Select a folder... dialogue
  3. Observe a crash

Other information

This seems to have begun occurring as of https://github.com/flathub/org.gnome.Builder/commit/8a31946997966281b354e4b48480c20d34317b30, however I have not yet attempted to install an older version of the Flatpak to verify that it works there.

Log from crash, captured by running flatpak run org.gnome.Builder > /tmp/builder.log 2>&1: builder.log

Other perhaps relevant information can be found here: #1207 (closed)

System info

  • Host: Fedora 31 x86_64
  • GNOME Builder version: 3.36.0, stable branch from Flathub, commit 4b9c3650f9e87eaba37b2ab392629b4881615c00d63c9061ee6926631e015092, subject "bump for stable tree fixes (8a319469)"
  • Flatpak version: 1.4.4
  • Rootfs: ext4
  • /mnt/storage fs: ext4