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Bug 664924 - gnome-shell crashes whenever I type in overview mode
gnome-shell crashes whenever I type in overview mode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 651503
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: overview
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-11-27 19:06 UTC by Ka-Hing Cheung
Modified: 2016-05-25 14:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Ka-Hing Cheung 2011-11-27 19:06:37 UTC 
JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS s
tring: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"gjs_throw"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"("Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: I
nvalid byte sequence in conversion input")@gjs_throw:0
([object _private_Shell_App])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/appDisplay.js:70
([object Array])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/appDisplay.js:130
()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/appDisplay.js:273
()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/appDisplay.js:307
_runDeferredWork("1")@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:824
_runAllDeferredWork()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:833
()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:914
"'  
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: I
nvalid byte sequence in conversion input"'
Comment 1 Ka-Hing Cheung 2011-11-27 19:07:13 UTC 
$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.2.1
Comment 2 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2011-11-27 19:14:27 UTC 
It's saying that you have a .desktop file whose filename is not valid UTF8.
Comment 3 Ka-Hing Cheung 2011-11-29 04:45:48 UTC 
I figured as much, but:

1) how can I find out which .desktop file is the problem?
2) gnome-shell probably should do better validation instead of crashing, and ideally display as many characters as possible in case the filename is partially in utf8
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2016-05-25 14:00:45 UTC 
This was fixed in bug 651503.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651503 ***