Unity

favorites apps with _ can crash unity at start

Bug #645835 reported by Didier Roche-Tolomelli on 2010-09-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Fix Released	High	Gord Allott	Unity 2010-09-24 "0.2.44 Maverik RC"
	unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

ok, having /home/didrocks/Bureau/test .desktop is transformed in:

didrocks@tidus:~$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/unity/launcher/favorites/favorites_list
[app-csh.desktop,app-terminator-1.desktop,app-test_.desktop]
didrocks@tidus:~$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/unity/launcher/favorites/app-test_.desktop/priority
3
didrocks@tidus:~$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/unity/launcher/favorites/app-test_.desktop/desktop_file
/home/didrocks/Bureau/test .desktop

As you can see, I can get it from gconftool-2 without any issue. The python gconf binding is working well too.

$ mutter --replace --mutter-plugins=/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libunity-mutter.so
** (mutter:718): DEBUG: OpenGL renderer string: GeForce Go 7900 GS/PCI/SSE2

(mutter:718): libunity-WARNING **: unity-favorites.vala:263: GConf float lookup failed: Nom de clé ou de répertoire non conforme: « /desktop/unity/launcher/favorites/app-test .desktop/priority » : « » est un caractère non valide dans un nom de clé/répertoire
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)

-> it seems _ has been replaced by ' '. (also think that desktop_file can have a space too as seen above)

Related branches

lp:~unity-team/unity/unity.fix-weird-favourite-paths

Merged into lp:unity at revision 552

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (community): Approve on 2010-09-24

lp:ubuntu/maverick/unity

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2010-09-23

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

David Barth (dbarth) on 2010-09-23

Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Gord Allott (gordallott)
milestone:	none → 2010-09-24

Revision history for this message

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote on 2010-09-23:

backtrace with some debug symbols Edit (7.1 KiB, application/octet-stream)

as request, a pretty backtrace for you gord :)

Gord Allott (gordallott) on 2010-09-24

Changed in unity:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-09-25:

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 0.2.44-0ubuntu1

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unity (0.2.44-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - refine launcher tile super key overlay aesthetic (LP: #633069)
    - improve Cof logo (LP: #644686)
    - fix a crasher in the place activation (LP: #634364)
    - fixes favorite loading for didrocks (thanks!) (LP: #645835)
    - workaround translation issue for Unity trash (LP: #646653)
    - MT final adjustement for maverick (LP: #645848, #640501)
  * debian/control:
    - depend on latest unity-asset-pool
  * backport fix to respect workspace layout
  * debian/libunity0.symbols:
    - updated
-- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:57:46 +0200