Broken symlink in /usr/share/applications/ causes zeitgeist-datahub to fail

[Jonathon Fernyhough]

zeitgeist:
  Installed: 0.3.2-1
zeitgeist-core:
  Installed: 0.3.2-1
zeitgeist-datahub:
  Installed: 0.3.2-1

(Lucid amd64, zeitgeist* from universe)

After installing OOo 3.2 from deb from the OOo website it left a broken symlink: /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-startcenter.desktop

This broken symlink caused zeitgeist-datahub to fail:

DEBUG:root:Updating database with new Recently Used Documents items
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/zeitgeist-datahub", line 110, in _update_db_async
    events = self._sources_queue[0].get_items()
  File "/usr/share/zeitgeist/_zeitgeist/loggers/zeitgeist_base.py", line 60, in get_items
    return self._get_items()
  File "/usr/share/zeitgeist/_zeitgeist/loggers/datasources/recent.py", line 260, in _get_items
    desktopfile = self._find_desktop_file_for_application(application)
  File "/usr/share/zeitgeist/_zeitgeist/loggers/datasources/recent.py", line 225, in _find_desktop_file_for_application
    for line in open(fullname):
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-startcenter.desktop'

Removing the symlink made everything shiny - I now even have entries in Activity Journal!

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Thank you for your bug report. This particular problem will be fixed in the next Zeitgeist release.