Gnome app install refuses to start after uninstallation of applications

[Petri Pennanen]

This is what triggered this bug for me:
1. Start gnome-app-install
2. Uninstall gthumb and openoffice. Install abiword and gnumeric.
3. Close gnome-app-install.
4. Start gnome-app-install

Now gnome app intall should start again. Instead it dies silently. Running it
from a terminal provides the output below. This is Hoary with
gnome-app-install-0+20050217-1 and hicolor-icon-theme-0.7-1

# sudo gnome-app-install
Password:
Got badly sized icon for gnome-util
Got non-package menu entry GNOME Utilities
Icon gimp is not in theme
Icon gthumb is not in theme
Icon mozilla is not in theme
Icon abiword_48 is not in theme
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-app-install", line 26, in ?
    app = AppInstall("/usr/share/gnome-app-install")
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 114, in __init__
    self.populate_menu()
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 228, in populate_menu
    self.populate_from_entry(self.store, menu)
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 210, in populate_from_entry
    self.populate_from_entry(store, entry, i)
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 214, in populate_from_entry
    store.set(i, self.COL_TYPE, self.TYPE_PACKAGE, self.COL_NAME,
xmlescape(entry.DesktopEntry.getName()), self.COL_DESC,
xmlescape(entry.DesktopEntry.getComment()), self.COL_ICON,
self.icon(entry.DesktopEntry.get("X-AppInstall-Icon", "") or
entry.DesktopEntry.getIcon(), 24), self.COL_PACKAGE,
entry.DesktopEntry.get("X-AppInstall-Package"))
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 253, in icon
    icon = self.icons.load_icon(name, size, 0)
gobject.GError: Failed to open file
'/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ooo_office.xpm': No such file or directory

[Petri Pennanen (suvarin)]

After updating several packages (not gnome-app-install that still is
0+20050217-1) I can no longer reproduce this bug. Gnome-app-install works,
installing and uninstalling packages does not trigger this bug.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Just got a similar one after uninstall glade:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 335, in closeClicked
    self.applyClicked(None)
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 324, in applyClicked
    self.updateCache()
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 142, in updateCache
    self.populate_menu()
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 244, in populate_menu
    self.populate_from_entry(self.store, menu)
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 215, in populate_from_entry
    self.populate_from_entry(store, entry, i)
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 225, in populate_from_entry
    store.set(i, self.COL_TYPE, self.TYPE_PACKAGE, self.COL_NAME,
xmlescape(entry.DesktopEntry.getName()), self.COL_DESC,
xmlescape(entry.DesktopEntry.getComment()), self.COL_ICON,
self.icon(entry.DesktopEntry.get("X-AppInstall-Icon", "") or
entry.DesktopEntry.getIcon(), 24), self.COL_PACKAGE, pkgname)
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 273, in icon
    icon = self.icons.load_icon(name, size, 0)
gobject.GError: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/glade-2.png': No such
file or directory

so this is not (yet) fixed

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Created an attachment (id=1724)
this patch should fix the issue, it's not perfect but should be good enough

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This problem is fixed with the upload of nome-app-install_0+20050321-1. Please
reopen if you still have problems.