bad gconf keys breaks printing

Bug #82473 reported by Matt Price
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Fix Released
Critical
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

After a recent aptitude dist-upgrade on feisty, I can no longer print emails from evolution (printing from other gnome apps seemsto work). Attempts to print generate the following message:

Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/n_copies
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `bool' for key /apps/evolution/shell/collate
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/print_pages
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/page_set
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `bool' for key /apps/evolution/shell/reverse
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/page_ranges
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/n_copies
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `bool' for key /apps/evolution/shell/collate
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/print_pages
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/page_set
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `bool' for key /apps/evolution/shell/reverse
Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/evolution/shell/page_ranges

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I tried to set the variable types in gconf-editor but apparently such actions are not enabled via gconf-editor. Also looked in .gconf/apps/evolution/shell for the above keys but didn't see them in %gconf.xml.

This wholly new problem arose after a recent update in which evolution and about 200 other programs were updated; not sure if the bug comes from evo or from one of the others (don't have a record of the update, unlessit's hiding somewhere I don't knowabout).

thanks,
m

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → High
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Matt Price (matt-price) wrote : Re: [Bug 82473] Re: bad gconf keys breaks printing

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 15:01 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401123
>
> ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #401123
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401123
>
> ** Also affects: evolution (upstream) via
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401123
> Importance: Unknown
> Status: Unknown
>
thanks sebastien, looks likethey'll get it cleaned up soon.

m

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Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
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Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

fixed upstream

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That has been fixed to feisty with GNOME 2.17.91 for herd4

Changed in evolution:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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