This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser -
79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
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chromium-browser (79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.2) eoan; urgency=medium
* New release to fix the upgrade path from 19.04 to 19.10 (LP:
#1858500)
chromium-browser (79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.1) eoa
The problem is also fixed on my system.
Thanks everybody for the fix!
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Title:
Syntax error in /usr/bin/chromium-browser
Verified. I followed the steps in the test case by installing chromium-
browser in a clean eoan VM and verified that after patching
get_browser_gnome3() in /usr/bin/xdg-settings I got the error message in
the console. I then enabled eoan-proposed, installed the chromium-
browser update (79.0.3945.7
Hello Laurent, or anyone else affected,
Accepted chromium-browser into eoan-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-
browser/79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.2 in a few hours, and then in the
-proposed repository.
Please help us by testing
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
+ Minor. Apparently under certain circumstances "xdg-settings get
default-web-browser" can return an empty string (although I haven't been able
to reproduce this myself), and this will make the /usr/bin/chromium-browser
wrapper script spit out a console err
@Łukasz, sorry, I meant to update this bug to make it SRU-ready, but I
somehow forgot to. SRU-wise the real important bug that the upload in
the eoan queue fixes is bug #1858500, but as the fix for this one was
already committed to the bzr branch, is minor and can't hurt, I don't
see a reason to ex
@Olivier, does this mean we should reject chromium-browser from the
queue?
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Title:
Syntax error in /usr/bin/chromium-bro
As of today I haven't found a way to reproduce the problem without
patching /usr/bin/xdg-settings. Even uninstalling all browsers, deleting
the mimeinfo caches, rebooting the (virtual) machine, pretending to be
other desktop environments, xdg-settings always reports that the default
web browser is
** Also affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu Eoan)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu Eoan)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu Eoan)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
** Changed in: chromium
Thank you for the quick fix!
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Title:
Syntax error in /usr/bin/chromium-browser when xdg-settings get
default-web-brows
This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser -
78.0.3904.108-0ubuntu1
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chromium-browser (78.0.3904.108-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium
* New upstream release: 78.0.3904.108
* chromium-browser: fix syntax error when xdg-settings returns an empty
string for default-web-
Fixed with https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser
/focal-stable/revision/1528.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
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** Branch linked: lp:~chromium-team/chromium-browser/eoan-stable
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Title:
Syntax error in /usr/bin/chromium-browser when
** Branch linked: lp:~chromium-team/chromium-browser/focal-stable
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Title:
Syntax error in /usr/bin/chromium-browser when
I can reliably reproduce by modifying /usr/bin/xdg-settings to
forcefully return an empty string for default-web-browser.
** Summary changed:
- Syntax eror in /usr/bin/chromium-browser when xdg-settings get
default-web-browser is empty
+ Syntax error in /usr/bin/chromium-browser when xdg-setting
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