Bug 151720 – crash on startup

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Bug 151720 - crash on startup


Summary:	crash on startup


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	gconf-editor
Classification:	Applications
Component:	general
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Gconf Editor Maintainers
QA Contact:	Gconf Editor Maintainers

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Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	148198 154199 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2004-09-02 21:59 UTC by Christian Persch
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

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Description Christian Persch 2004-09-02 21:59:31 UTC

Started gconf-editor (HEAD as of 2004-09-02 21:50 UTC), crashed. Here's the trace:

+ Trace 49851

#3 <signal handler called>
#4 gconf_bookmarks_hook_up_menu
at gconf-bookmarks.c line 218
#5 gconf_editor_window_init
at gconf-editor-window.c line 1364
#6 g_type_create_instance
at gtype.c line 1595
#7 g_object_constructor
at gobject.c line 1044
#8 g_object_newv
at gobject.c line 941
#9 g_object_new_valist
at gobject.c line 984
#10 g_object_new
at gobject.c line 822
#11 gconf_editor_application_create_editor_window
at gconf-editor-application.c line 46
#12 main
at main.c line 68

Comment 1 Fernando Herrera 2004-09-02 23:07:53 UTC

Humm, this is because a missing schema file from libgnome, so there is no
default value for have_icons key...
gconf-editor should check this correctly, so the fix is:
diff -u -u -r1.10 gconf-bookmarks.c
--- gconf-bookmarks.c   23 Apr 2004 08:08:26 -0000      1.10
+++ gconf-bookmarks.c   2 Sep 2004 22:57:55 -0000
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
                 err = NULL;
                 value = gconf_client_get (client,
"/desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons", &err);

-                if (err != NULL || value->type != GCONF_VALUE_BOOL)
+                if (err != NULL || value == NULL || value->type !=
GCONF_VALUE_BOOL)
                         return;

                 have_icons = gconf_value_get_bool (value);


This is a very rare situation (wrong libgnome instalation) and I'm not sure if
we should break the hard code freeze of 2.8 RC1

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2004-09-10 14:48:03 UTC

I'm seeing the same thing on a stock Fedora Core 3 (rawhide) install. I think
gconf-editor should be more resilient to errors, and a crash on startup looks
pretty bad...

Comment 3 Fernando Herrera 2004-09-10 23:41:25 UTC

Humm, does FC3 install libgnome schemas correctly? I mean, you should have a
default value for /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons
I'll apply this patch for sure in 2.8.1, but I'm not really sure about breaking
the hard code freeze for 2.8.0, because every normal instalation of GNOME should
work.

Comment 4 Fernando Herrera 2004-09-18 18:02:38 UTC

Applied

Comment 5 Fernando Herrera 2004-09-18 18:29:24 UTC

*** Bug 148198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Vincent Noel 2004-10-01 13:45:43 UTC

*** Bug 154199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***