Re: [Bug 59392] Re: update-desktop-database segfault
Take a look at the script fix suggested on the Ubuntu site. It worked for me. BIll On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 03:52 +, Ozzyprv wrote: How can I get the fix? I think I am getting the same error message. -- update-desktop-database segfault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 59392] Re: update-desktop-database segfault
Paul, Very interesting I found one file without a [Desktop Entry] -- one for my NVIDA graphics card that I had to add using restricted drivers for a GeForce FX5500 (which, no matter what I try, does not work as well under Ubuntu as under Windows -- perhaps because Ubuntu lacks drivers for my Samsung SyncMaster 170T) Bill On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 05:36 +, 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 Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 59392] Re: update-desktop-database segfault -- SOLUTION!!!!
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 +, 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 Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 59392] Re: update-desktop-database segfault
Paul, No can do. Running this command produces a segmentation fault ... exactly the same problem that I encounter when attempting to remove Yelp or OpenOffice. Bill On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:27 +, Paul Dufresne wrote: Bill, could you in a terminal issue: update-desktop-database -v 2~/update-desktop-database.out and then attach the resulting update-desktop-database.out file in your home directory to this report? ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #396439 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396439 ** Also affects: desktop-file-utils via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396439 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- update-desktop-database segfault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 59392] Re: update-desktop-database segfault
Paul,
Oh yea, get the group_name error you describe below. For whatever
reason, the apps that are associated with this problem are OpenOffice,
Java runtime, and Yelp. Any installation which touches these apps
provokes the error and leads to a 139 exit. None of these apps can be
removed or reconfigured.
Bill
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:13 +, Paul Dufresne wrote:
Hi Bill!
Do you have g_key_file_get_string_list: assertion `group_name != NULL' failed
too?
If not, I would probably consider it a different bug, that should be reported
in a new bug report.
In that case, you may want to explore in GUI /var/crash, and 'double-'click
the crash file to be guided in reporting bug.
Well, while trying to learn what is update-desktop-database, I extracted code
I believe to be the culprit (seems the same in Gutsy and Hardy):
static void
process_desktop_file (const char *desktop_file,
const char *name,
GError **error)
{
GError *load_error;
GKeyFile *keyfile;
char **mime_types;
int i;
keyfile = g_key_file_new ();
load_error = NULL;
g_key_file_load_from_file (keyfile, desktop_file,
G_KEY_FILE_NONE, load_error);
if (load_error != NULL)
{
g_propagate_error (error, load_error);
return;
}
mime_types = g_key_file_get_string_list (keyfile,
g_key_file_get_start_group
(keyfile),
MimeType, NULL, load_error);
g_key_file_free (keyfile);
As I have no clue at all what that code does, I'll need a bit of time to
undestand it. ;-)
That said, when I do:
sudo apt-get remove yelp
on my Hardy system, I get no error at all.
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Re: [Bug 59392] Re: update-desktop-database segfault
Paul, I've attached the ls.out file. You'll note some links between OpenOffice as originally installed by Ubuntu and an aborted effort this afternoon to download and install the latest OpenOffice code from OpenOffice.org Just haven't had time to clean things up. Bill On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:34 +, Paul Dufresne wrote: Oh Bill, could you also do: ls -l /usr/share/applications/*.desktop ~/ls.out and attach the resulting ls.out to this report? Please! I suspect a file among that to not be to root:root, but as I have no idea what I am doing, well, ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8839 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/accessibility-keyboard.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1220 2007-09-21 06:19 /usr/share/applications/AdobeReader.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2399 2007-05-14 05:38 /usr/share/applications/alacarte.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 392 2007-10-06 08:31 /usr/share/applications/apport-gtk-mime.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11995 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/at-properties.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 695 2007-06-25 10:09 /usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 320 2007-07-27 17:03 /usr/share/applications/automatix2.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8296 2007-09-18 12:16 /usr/share/applications/baobab.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 2007-09-28 07:00 /usr/share/applications/bluetooth-analyzer.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1555 2007-09-28 07:00 /usr/share/applications/bluetooth-properties.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9149 2007-04-27 10:56 /usr/share/applications/bug-buddy.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9172 2007-09-19 08:48 /usr/share/applications/cddb-slave.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8332 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/default-applications.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1445 2007-10-12 20:21 /usr/share/applications/displayconfig-gtk.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7028 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/display-properties.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2405 2007-05-18 06:55 /usr/share/applications/djvulibre-djview3.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9751 2007-09-30 07:46 /usr/share/applications/ekiga.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5979 2007-10-19 15:08 /usr/share/applications/eog.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10112 2007-10-22 12:04 /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3987 2007-10-23 14:59 /usr/share/applications/evolution-2.2.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8349 2007-10-23 14:58 /usr/share/applications/evolution.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1547 2007-10-23 14:59 /usr/share/applications/evolution-mail.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11754 2007-10-19 15:37 /usr/share/applications/file-roller.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 508 2007-10-09 06:45 /usr/share/applications/firefox-3.0.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2509 2007-12-04 05:21 /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5322 2007-10-19 15:31 /usr/share/applications/gcalctool.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10100 2007-09-18 06:37 /usr/share/applications/gconf-editor.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2272 2007-10-06 08:43 /usr/share/applications/gdebi.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7141 2007-10-22 11:54 /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5899 2007-09-18 12:16 /usr/share/applications/gfloppy.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4692 2007-10-05 14:10 /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2346 2007-09-12 18:21 /usr/share/applications/gksu.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2740 2007-10-19 16:13 /usr/share/applications/gmenu-simple-editor.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6407 2007-10-19 16:33 /usr/share/applications/gnome-about.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5983 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/gnome-about-me.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4194 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1588 2007-10-05 04:03 /usr/share/applications/gnome-app-install.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1565 2007-10-05 04:03 /usr/share/applications/gnome-app-install-xfce.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 641 2007-09-20 12:22 /usr/share/applications/gnomebaker.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 485 2007-06-14 11:07 /usr/share/applications/gnome-btdownload.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6038 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/gnomecc.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5484 2007-09-19 08:48 /usr/share/applications/gnome-cd.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7253 2007-09-18 12:16 /usr/share/applications/gnome-dictionary.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7152 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/gnome-font-viewer.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6804 2007-09-20 09:40 /usr/share/applications/gnome-keyring-manager.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4761 2007-09-18 06:44 /usr/share/applications/gnome-nettool.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7480 2007-10-24 10:07 /usr/share/applications/gnome-network-preferences.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 474 2007-10-22 11:53
