deskbar-applet gconf errors keep popping up

[Joe Barnett]

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

I keep getting an error dialog message box stating:

An Error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for deskbar-applet. Some of your configuration settings may not work correctly.

Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'

seems to pop up every 10 minutes or so ? just started today, despite no upgraded packages since yesterday, also....

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: deskbar-applet 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: deskbar-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

It definitely happens for me all the time; not sure what situation created it though... Pop up first appears when deskbar-applet loads, and then continues to re-appear every 5-10 minutes unless i leave it open. couldn't find the string "url-handlers" anywhere in my .gconf dir, not sure where else to look?

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

running:
$ gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/url-handlers

seems to have fixed it, then just need to re-set preferred applications if not default.

should have grabbed contents of .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers first though, not sure what broke it!

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

enabling the "Web History (Epiphany)" deskbar extension appears to trigger this error immediately.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Noticed on my system as well. I'm attaching the output of

gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

raising importance as it is a very visible and annoying problem.

TBH, it seems rather important to me, but that might be because it happened the whole last week for me ;-)

[ben (bhaubeck-gmail)]

i am using jaunty with the latest updates and the bug is still there.

the moment i click on "preferences" of the tasque - icon in the notification area this message pops up:

Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'

[ben (bhaubeck-gmail)]

seems a duplicate of this:

337849
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tasque/+bug/337849

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

ben <email address hidden> writes:

> seems a duplicate of this:
>
> 337849
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tasque/+bug/337849

perhaps. I'm affected without having taskque installed, though.
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[slayton (slayton)]

I'm getting this same error but only when I try to connect to RTM.com
I had tasque working fine on my laptop, I built a desktop and copied over my /home dir I installed tasque on my desktop and now I get this error.

[slayton (slayton)]

I get this error on my desktop. My laptop still works fine.

[Hugues Haubruge (ubuntu-haubruge)]

The error would be linked to a GTK+ bug for the LinkButton object.

Check if this workaround for tasque is applicable here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tasque/+bug/337849/comments/10

[Matt (matthew-franklin)]

I got this error after using VMWare Player.

Removed ~/recently-used.xbel and this fixed the problem....