I'll be very delighted to help with it. as soon i get back to my ubuntu box
i'll try ur suggestion.in about in 1 or 2 hours.
as far as i am understanding, i have to purge previous install and dell
variety config & install a previous version.
or will the default command will install the bugged version?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install variety


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Peter Levi <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Bsienn, can you help me debug why get_wallpaper fails?
>
> The current fix fixes the Python side of the code, but we still don't
> know why and where get_wallpaper exits with a Segmentation fault
> (/home/bsienn/.config/variety/scripts/get_wallpaper: line 38: 3505
> Segmentation fault (core dumped))
>
> Please edit ~/.config/variety/scripts/get_wallpaper and put some
> debugging "echo 111", "echo 222", etc. statements between the commands
> around line 38  and run it so that we see exactly which command causes
> the error. Then once you pinpoint it, please run it separately in a
> terminal to check what happens. Thanks.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393136
>
> Title:
>   installed and reboot variety. Not starting giving error on command
>   line
>
> Status in Variety wallpaper changer:
>   Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
>   Ubuntu 14.04.1 64bit
>
>   variety was working perfect in same box but after new installation of
> ubuntu and variety. after reboot was not auto started.
>   Ran with command line and it gave error.
>
>   Commandline output:
>
>   WARNING: 2014-11-16 11:47:01,059: load_history() 'Could not load history
> file, continuing without it, no worries'
>   /home/bsienn/.config/variety/scripts/get_wallpaper: line 38:  3505
> Segmentation fault      (core dumped) gsettings get
> org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri
>   ERROR: 2014-11-16 11:47:01,190: get_desktop_wallpaper() 'Exception when
> calling get_wallpaper script'
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line
> 2117, in get_desktop_wallpaper
>       output = subprocess.check_output(script).strip()
>     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 573, in check_output
>       raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
>   CalledProcessError: Command
> '/home/bsienn/.config/variety/scripts/get_wallpaper' returned non-zero exit
> status 139
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/bin/variety", line 41, in
> <module>
>       variety.main()
>     File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/__init__.py", line 134,
> in main
>       window.start(arguments)
>     File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line
> 164, in start
>       self.update_indicator(auto_changed=False)
>     File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line
> 623, in update_indicator
>       logger.info("Setting file info to: " + file)
>   TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
>   Exception in thread Thread-2:
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
>       self.run()
>     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 1082, in run
>       self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
>     File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line
> 1031, in _do_set_wp
>       self.do_set_wp(filename, refresh_level)
>     File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line
> 1188, in do_set_wp
>       logger.info("Calling do_set_wp with " + filename)
>   TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
>
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