(In reply to Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) from comment #68) > Ah, yes. That explains a lot. > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gconf/log/gconf/gconf-client.c?h=gnome-2-20 > > I also wonder whether gconf_escape_key() should be used here. > http://developer.gnome.org/gconf/stable/gconf-gconf.html#gconf-escape-key
Thanks for looking into this further guys - I was about to try in and either install RHEL5 or compile GConf 2.16 to try and recreate this other problem.. So we now have at least two distinct GNOME bugs which can trigger this behaviour. 1) For older versions of GVFS, the error handling is broken so it always uses the unreturned error handler (thus a popup) 2) When GIO is enabled, old versions of GIO still rely on GConf to get the URI Handlers and they pass NULL instead of a GError* so any errors will always cause a popup. It's pretty shameful really that RHEL5 is still delivering GConf 2.16 as the error handling was actually fixed way back in 2007! On the Ubuntu side of things - version 10.04LTS (Lucid Lynx) is about to reach the end of its support life (March 2013 I think), so I don't know whether we'd persuade them to change their Thunderbird build at this late stage. For this version of Ubuntu (which is based on Debian Squeeze), the popup issue will go away if Thunderbird is built with '--disable-gio' This problem does not exist in Ubuntu 12.04LTS (precise pangolin) and hopefully the majority of users (including myself) will upgrade soon. I suspect any other Debian-squeeze based distros which are hitting this issue will probably have the same root cause as Ubuntu. I suppose Thunderbird could detect gio and gconf versions in the configure script and refuse to enable gio if it's older than a certain version (perhaps just emit a warning and then continue with gio disabled), and perhaps enable something similar to jhorak's patch if gconf < 2.20 is detected?? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411358 Title: Thunderbird2 gconf gmt problem 'Bad key or directory name' because of plus symbol (+) Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Here is an error message for Thunderbird 2 in Jaunty gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ thunderbird GConf Error: Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/GMT+02/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names gnubyexample@k8amd:~$ date;uname -a;cat /etc/*version*;dpkg -l | grep underbird Sun Aug 9 14:48:37 BST 2009 Linux k8amd 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux 5.0 ii enigmail 2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2 Enigmail - GPG support for Thunderbird ii thunderbird 2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu2 Thunderbird English language/region package From reading this extract ( http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.desktop/2008-03/msg00020.html ): Subject: Re: GConf/Thunderbird error on Solaris Nevada "Hi Mats,I believe you download the contribute builds of Thunderbird 2, and run it on snv_70. For some reason, the fix is upstreamed to Thunderbird 3 alpha, but not community version of Thunderbird 2. Fixed in snv_68 means the fix was integrated to Thunderbird bundled with snv_68." ...it seems that the fix for this in thunderbird2 might require some manual intervention as although the problem is well know, the fix was only incorporated in the newer thunderbird3. Have just checked the Karmic version at: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/thunderbird which currently shows that version 2 of thunderbird is planned for Karmic release. As thunderbird3 is at Beta 3 right now I can perhaps see why debian and ubuntu are sticking with Thunderbird2 just now. http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/press/archive/2009-07-21-01 However it does seem a shame to ship a new release with this known gconf issue unpatched. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/411358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
