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docky package

  1. Bug #1074804
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1074804

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Fred Roller (fredroller66) wrote :

I am running Docky on Xubuntu across several machines and several generations 12.04 -14.04 and it is easily reproduced by updating or installing with either GUI (software center or update manager) or CLI apt-get or dpkg -i. The installation process is what is killing it. I have attached the following log from an Acer Aspire 7520 AMD 64 (corex2), 4Gb ram, 1 Tb hdd, with Nvidia graphics.
First killall docky.
Then docky --debug > docky.log &
then sudo apt-get install warzone2100 -y
then wait for crash.
Do not restart docky
then killall docky.
End of steps.

It's an annoyance but not a show stopper. I have tried on a 14.04 beta2 build with the same results. The following from the log seems to be the relevent part:

[snip]
[Debug 12:44:19.621] [DesktopItemService] 2 new application(s) found.
[Debug 12:44:19.622] [DesktopItemService] Adding '/usr/share/applications/warzone2100.desktop'.
[Debug 12:44:19.622] [DesktopItemService] Adding '/usr/share/applications/warzone2100.desktop'.
[Debug 12:44:20.427] [DesktopItemService] Saving desktop item cache '/home/froller/.cache/docky/docky.desktop.en_US.UTF-8.cache'.
[Info 12:44:20.795] [DrawingService] Could not find 'application-default-icon', using fallback of 'application-x-executable'.
[Debug 12:44:21.985] [DesktopItemService] Saving desktop item cache '/home/froller/.cache/docky/docky.desktop.en_US.UTF-8.cache'.
[Debug 12:44:23.141] [DesktopItemService] Saving desktop item cache '/home/froller/.cache/docky/docky.desktop.en_US.UTF-8.cache'.
[Fatal 12:44:23.192] [GLib-GObject] g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[Debug 12:44:24.426] [DesktopItemService] Saving desktop item cache '/home/froller/.cache/docky/docky.desktop.en_US.UTF-8.cache'.
[Fatal 12:44:44.124] [GLib-GObject] g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[EOF]

relevent because it is the first mention of the new programs and seems to be trying update cache. Could [Info 12:44:20.795] the trigger of the crash? Just guessing, I don't know enough about programing to say. Given the age of the post, if the solution has been resolved else where please point me in that direction.

Fred