archive manager crashes after upgrade to 12.10

[wa1d0rf]

I've discovered that the archive manager crashes every time I try to extract files from an archive. it seems to begin to open, then immediately closes without an error message/dialog or anything. I want to extract some theme packages but I can't get this to work as it did before the upgrade.

I've shutdown and restarted the system, I have done all system updates. I've even tried to uninstall it and re-install. Nothing seems to change the condition.

Anyone have any ideas?

[verymadpip]

Same here. I can't offer any help either, except to try extracting the file from CLI, which works for me:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/25961/how-to-install-a-tar-gz-or-tar-bz2-file
This includes the commands for the extraction.

I think this is the bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1037844

[tophill]

me too!

[Frogs Hair]

GTK themes not compatible with Gnome 3.6 can cause this problem. Test with a default theme to eliminate this possibility.

[verymadpip]

This happens in Xubuntu 12.10 too. Surely that's nothing to do with Gnome 3.6? I could be missing something there though.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

downgrade fileroller (worked great for me)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/file-roller#pdownload (bottom of page)
run
sudo apt-get purge file-roller before installing the deb

[cb951303]

same here. this is really annoying

[tophill]

Newest version of file-roller 3.6.1.1, which is currently in proposed updates, fixes this.
See http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
It worked for me.

[shankru85]

try installing xarchiver for now as a workaround, which is what i did.

[jcruiz]

downgrade fileroller (worked great for me)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/file-roller#pdownload (bottom of page)
run
sudo apt-get purge file-roller before installing the deb

Thanks this solves the issue. In my case I wasn't able to work with EAR or war files. I've updated the bug with the file type.

Thanks for the workaround

JC