ArgumentException in Do.Paths.Combine

[Arun K Rajeevan]

I recently installed gnome-do in my Ubuntu 7.10 as said in Gnome-Do site.
It's version is 0.4.0.1.
And mine is a P4 pc with 512mb ram.
It worked nice, although I can't found it's preference menu as said in it's wiki.
Today I installed Ubuntu studio -look package along with it desktop-base, desktop-profile, gnome-core packages.
But after that when I pressed Super+Space Gnome-Do didn't launched.
So I logged out and logged in again. And again it never come alive ( I added it via session manager)
So I manually started from menu, no action.
Then I entered it in my terminal and I am attaching what I see in terminal.

here is a part from begining
======================================================================
(Do:15874): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed

(Do:15874): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Internal error: the configuration system was not initialized. Did you call _gnome_vfs_configuration_init?
======================================================================

and from end
======================================================================
Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: First component must not be null or empty
Parameter name: first
  at Do.Paths.Combine (System.String first, System.String[] components) [0x00000]
  at Do.Paths.get_SystemData () [0x00000]
  at Do.Paths.get_SystemPlugins () [0x00000]
  at Do.Core.UniverseManager.get_PluginsDirs () [0x00000]
  at Do.Core.UniverseManager.LoadPlugins () [0x00000]
  at Do.Core.UniverseManager.Initialize () [0x00000]
  at Do.Do.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
======================================================================

I really loved this launcher. So please inform me if you find a solution to this problem.
Please don't say me that I need to upgrade. I have a limited account.

waiting for replays,
Arun.K.R

{ Man can be Destroyed but cannot be Defeated.}
http://www.krarun.co.cc
Registered Gnu\Linux User: #470196
Registered Ubuntu User: #25827

[Arun K Rajeevan (kra3)]

Since I am not want to wait for a fix, I removed all those packages except Ubuntu-look (given in bug report).
And now Gnome-Do loads as it previously does.
But still I wan't to know what went wrong.

Arun.K.R

{ Man can be Destroyed but cannot be Defeated.}
http://www.krarun.co.cc
Registered Gnu\Linux User: #470196
Registered Ubuntu User: #25827

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. You're not using a package provided by Ubuntu, so I'm going to close the Ubuntu task for this. I will assign it to the Gnome Do project though

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

The only solution we can give you is to upgrade. The version you are
using is a year old.

On Jan 18, 2009, at 7:28 AM, kra3 <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> I recently installed gnome-do in my Ubuntu 7.10 as said in Gnome-Do
> site.
> It's version is 0.4.0.1.
> And mine is a P4 pc with 512mb ram.
> It worked nice, although I can't found it's preference menu as said
> in it's wiki.
> Today I installed Ubuntu studio -look package along with it desktop-
> base, desktop-profile, gnome-core packages.
> But after that when I pressed Super+Space Gnome-Do didn't launched.
> So I logged out and logged in again. And again it never come alive
> ( I added it via session manager)
> So I manually started from menu, no action.
> Then I entered it in my terminal and I am attaching what I see in
> terminal.
>
> here is a part from begining
> ======================================================================
> (Do:15874): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion
> `hash_table != NULL' failed
>
> (Do:15874): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Internal error: the
> configuration system was not initialized. Did you call
> _gnome_vfs_configuration_init?
> ======================================================================
>
> and from end
> ======================================================================
> Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: First component must
> not be null or empty
> Parameter name: first
> at Do.Paths.Combine (System.String first, System.String[]
> components) [0x00000]
> at Do.Paths.get_SystemData () [0x00000]
> at Do.Paths.get_SystemPlugins () [0x00000]
> at Do.Core.UniverseManager.get_PluginsDirs () [0x00000]
> at Do.Core.UniverseManager.LoadPlugins () [0x00000]
> at Do.Core.UniverseManager.Initialize () [0x00000]
> at Do.Do.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
> ======================================================================
>
> I really loved this launcher. So please inform me if you find a
> solution to this problem.
> Please don't say me that I need to upgrade. I have a limited account.
>
> waiting for replays,
> Arun.K.R
>
> { Man can be Destroyed but cannot be Defeated.}
> http://www.krarun.co.cc
> Registered Gnu\Linux User: #470196
> Registered Ubuntu User: #25827
>
> ** Affects: gnome-do (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> it doesn't launching
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318472
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> Do
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[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

The code path in questions has been removed from the codebase, so we cannot reasonably debug or issue a patch.