Share My Desktop crashes Vino due to a buggy Ubuntu patch
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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vino (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Right-clicking a contact in Empathy causes Vino to emit a warning about the "use-dbus-listener" property not existing, a few criticals from tp-glib, and then crash.
This appears to be due to the following hunk of debian/
Index: b/server/
=======
--- a/server/
+++ b/server/
@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ handle_channels_cb (TpSimpleHandler *han
·
server = g_object_new (VINO_TYPE_
+ #ifdef VINO_ENABLE_
+ "use-dbus-
+ #endif /* VINO_ENABLE_
"view-only", 0,
This essentially reverts this year-old upstream fix http://
The fix should simply be to drop that hunk of the patch. (This crash cannot be remotely triggered or anything nasty like that.)
Changed in vino (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in vino (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in vino (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody |
Changed in vino (Ubuntu Precise): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in vino (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody |
This bug was fixed in the package vino - 3.4.1-0ubuntu2
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vino (3.4.1-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low
* debian/ patches/ 12_app- indicators- only.patch
- Removed non-existing property which was only set if using
the appindicator (LP: #997699)
* debian/control.in
- use latest standards version
-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 10 May 2012 14:43:03 -0700