Problem reading or parsing sonic-visualiser .desktop files

Hello and thanks for the report.
This bug did not have the correct package associated. I have changed this bug as a bug in sonic-visualiser.

Best Regards
   NikTh

It would be helpful to provide more information about this problem.
Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1255469

Also execute the following command and post back here in a comment or as a separate attachment the full results.

cat /usr/share/applications/x-sonicvisualiser.desktop

Best Regards
   NikTh

apport information

apport information

galvao@acer14:~$ cat /usr/share/applications/x-sonicvisualiser.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Command=Sonic Visualiser session file
Hidden=false
MimeType=application/x-sonicvisualiser
Patterns=*.sv;*.SV
Icon=sv-icon
Type=MimeType
galvao@acer14:~$

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Em 27-11-2013 09:06, Nik.Th. escreveu:
> cat /usr/share/applications/x-sonicvisualiser.desktop

apport information

apport information

Thanks for the report, forwarded the issue to Debian (where this package comes from)

Edited the title. Hope that doesn't cause more confusion than the previous title.

I came across the same issue recently while updating packages using aptitude. Here's a snip:

...
Setting up shotwell-common (0.18.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up shotwell (0.18.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up software-center (13.10-0ubuntu3) ...
Updating software catalog...this may take a moment.
INFO:softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache:aptcache.open()
WARNING:softwarecenter.db.update:The file: '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser-layer.desktop' could not be read correctly. The application associated with this file will not be included in the software catalog. Please consider raising a bug report for this issue with the maintainer of that application
WARNING:softwarecenter.db.update:The file: '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser.desktop' could not be read correctly. The application associated with this file will not be included in the software catalog. Please consider raising a bug report for this issue with the maintainer of that application
Software catalog update was successful.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Press Return to continue.

Here are the relevant .desktop files, in a compressed tarball made with

tar cvzf sonic-visualiser-desktop-files.tgz /usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualise*

I've been getting these errors too, and not just in trusty. The two files concerned are part of the app-install-data package, and that's where this bug belongs in my view. It seems they are generated for the Ubuntu Software Center from the application's .desktop files, which have been faulty for a while and remain unfixed (see associated upstream bug). These errors should become apparent during the conversion process, i.e. when building the app-install-data package, and not on the user's system where they cause nothing but confusion.

So my suggestion is to validate all generated .desktop files early on when building the app-install-data package and to throw out those that don't pass muster. This way, the original authors could be notfied about such problems but users wouldn't be need to be bothered.

Hi,

came accross this Issue,too.

apport-collect 1255469
You need to run 'sudo apt-get install python-apport' for apport-collect to work.

cat /usr/share/applications/x-sonicvisualiser.desktop
cat: /usr/share/applications/x-sonicvisualiser.desktop: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

locate x-sonicvisualiser.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser.desktop

Just like a Clean System and don't like it to install unneeded things(python-apport). If I can contribute in any other way to fix this issue, please be so kind and let me know.

kind regards

John

This bug was fixed in the package sonic-visualiser - 2.3~repack1-3

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sonic-visualiser (2.3~repack1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * Do not install x-sonicvisualiser*.desktop files.
    (Closes: #725049, LP: #1161283, #1255469)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:52:13 +0200