Paul, After I sent my last message, I removed two completely empty placeholders for my NVDIA card from /usr/share/applications (plus discarded a small number of "dead" entries for applications which no longer exist on my system) and as they say in Gay Paris, "Voila!", no more segmentation faults when attempting to add/update/remove applications.
Thanks for your help. I should have thought to inspect the contents of my desktop directory entries. Nonetheless, I suspect it would be helpful if a good coder would include some "if-then" logic that tests for incomplete/damaged desktop entries rather than allowing Ubuntu to generate a segmentation fault. Bill On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 05:36 +0000, Paul Dufresne wrote: > Hi again Bill! > You could try: > grep -r -L "\[Desktop Entry\]" /usr/share/applications/*|grep .desktop > This is supposed to show .desktop files that don't contain "[Desktop Entry]" > which would in my > opinion be the cause of your bug. > > If you find zero, it probably means I made some bad assumption. > If you find one or two, then they are likely to be the cause of your problem. > Please attach it (or them). > If you find a lot, then, again I must have make an other bad assumption. > -- update-desktop-database segfault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for desktop-file-utils in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
