non-fatal error message when nautilus started from command line

[Andy Stanford-Clark]

Binary package hint: nautilus

when I start nautilus from the command line in Karmic, I get
(nautilus:31952): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

Nautilus does start, so it's non-fatal, but an annoying and un-necessary error message which didn't happen in Intrepid (I didn't use Jaunty).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 18 15:05:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

any news about this ? did you sent it upstream? may you tell us the bug number there?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This bug is actually due to one of our patches (18_signal_curtain.patch), and is fixed here already in Lucid:

nautilus (1:2.28.3-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix memory leaks
    - Don't rewrite bookmars unnecessary on startup
    - Fix background "darkness" detection for font color (lp: #356289)
    - Disable trash/delete key shortcuts when menu items disabled
      (lp: #490512)
  * Sync on Debian
  * debian/control.in:
    - Build-Depends on liblaunchpad-integration-dev
    - change recommends on cd burners to a suggests
    - change gksu conflicts version to match the ubuntu transition
    - don't build using beagle and tracker
    - don't recommends desktop-base, don't suggests tracker
    - nautilus Suggests gnome-app-install rather than synaptic
    - set vcs url
  * debian/mount-archive.desktop,
    debian/mount-archive.desktop.in,
    debian/nautilus.install:
    - new nautilus context menu item to allow mounting zip, iso, etc
  * debian/nautilus-data.gconf-schemas:
    - change the default desktop configuration, default to browser,
      don't change autorun option to not ask what to do
  * debian/nautilus-data.install, debian/source_nautilus.py:
    - apport hook to list versions of files in /usr/lib/nautilus and reassign
      the crashes when there are not due to nautilus code directly
  * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch:
    - launchpad changes.
  * debian/patches/03_menu_entry.patch:
    - change the menu item category.
  * debian/patches/15_translations_list_update.patch:
    - list the new desktop as translatable
  * debian/patches/18_signal_curtain.patch:
    - signal the curtain when loaded
    - update by Erez Volk to fix a warning (lp: #454234)
  * debian/patches/20_open-with_install.patch:
    - don't use that debian change but rather gnome-app-install
  * debian/patches/80_suppress_umount_in_ltsp.patch:
    - don't list unmount and eject actions on ltsp clients
  * debian/patches/82_gnome-app-install.patch:
    - Invoke gnome-app-install when no application known for file.
  * debian/patches/95_no-initial-fade.patch: Patch to disable the initial
    fade-in of the background without disabling crossfades when the
    background is changed.
  * debian/rules:
    - don't use debian translation hack
    - update shlib version
  * debian/watch:
    - watch unstable serie