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glib2.0 package

gsettings fails on setting all keys whose values are contained in []

Bug #925382 reported by Doug McMahon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GLib
Fix Released
Medium
glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

Any attempt to use use gsettings to set a value that are [] fails

Test case example
use gsettings get to show values for com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
Try to reset using the same 'as' format, fails on error

Ex.

~$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier']
doug@doug-XPS-M1330:~$ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service']"

GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_is_maybe: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed

GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_is_array: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed

GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_dup_string: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed

GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_equal: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type1)' failed
0-49:can not parse as value of type `(null)'

The same will happen for any key that uses same type, []

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libglib2.0-bin 2.31.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 2 05:17:30 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120128)
SourcePackage: glib2.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/quantal/glib2.0
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
Doug McMahon (mc3man)
summary: - gsettings fails on all values that are contained in []
+ gsettings fails on setting all keys whose values are contained in []
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Can this be some kind of memory corruption?

I'm getting different warnings when running the command successively:

0-21:can not parse as value of type `r'
0-21:can not parse as value of type `(null)'
0-21:can not parse as value of type `(s)'
0-21:can not parse as value of type `i'

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, confirmed, I'm discussing it with upstream and opened https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669253 about it

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

ok, and fixed: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=387ed239e236cad1c3a54d08a34194c36bb59dba

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in glib:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package glib2.0 - 2.31.14-0ubuntu1

---------------
glib2.0 (2.31.14-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    GResource:
    - GLib now includes a commandline utility, gresource, to explore
      resources in ELF files
    - The resource compiler can now optionally strip ignorable
      whitespace from XML resources
    - The resource compiler can now generate build dependencies
    - The resource compiler will now autoselect output formats
    GApplication:
    - The menu markup parser API has been dropped, the menu XML support
      lives in GTK+ now
    GValueArray has been deprecated
  * debian/libglib2.0-0.symbols:
    - new version update
  * debian/libglib2.0-bin.install:
    - list the new gresource command and its manpage
  * debian/control.in:
    - Breaks on gtk << 3.3.12, glib and gtk needs to be updated together
      due to the gmenu parser changes
    - Build-Depends on libelf-dev for the gresources tools, thanks ricotz
  * debian/docs:
    - dropped, no need to install ChangeLog and NEWS from the past century
  * debian/libglib2.0-bin.install:
    - ship the glib-compile-resources manpage, thanks ricotz
  * debian/patches/git_gsettings_lists_set.patch:
    - git patch, fix "gsettings set ..." command line issues (lp: #925382)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:24:45 +0100

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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