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deskbar-applet package

deskbar-applet crashes on load with bad history

Bug #158997 reported by Aaron on 2007-10-31

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	deskbar-applet	Fix Released	Critical	gnome-bugs #470985
	deskbar-applet (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

Running Ubuntu Gutsy all up to date:
I've had this recurring problem where deskbar crashes on boot and whenever I add it to the panel. It pops up a bug report window with this stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/CoreImpl.py", line 314, in on_module_initialized
    self._history.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/core/DeskbarHistory.py", line 113, in load
    saved_history = cPickle.load(file(HISTORY_FILE))
EOFError

I believe I can make it go away by deleting :~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/history-2.20-compatible.pickle and stopping and restarting deskbar a couple times. I'll attach the history file that seems to be causing it.

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Aaron (magicrobotmonkey) wrote on 2007-10-31:

history-2.20-compatible.pickle Edit (317 bytes, application/octet-stream)

Heres the offending history file, and I can confirm that removing it allows deskbar to start up and run normally (albeit without any history...).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-12-09:

Thank you for your bug. The crash looks like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470985 and should be fixed in hardy now, feel free to reopen if you still get the issue though