fyi: error during aptitude upgrade fix

[Myles Green]

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:42:03 -0800
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> FYI:
>   I was receiving the following error during "aptitude upgrade" on 
> debian 3.0 :
> 
> 
> ** (process:17207): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 
> (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion 
> `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL'
> failed
> 
> ** (process:17207): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 
> (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion 
> `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL'
> failed
> 
> ** (process:17207): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 
> (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion 
> `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL'
> failed
> 
> 
> The cure was to edit the
> /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop
> file, eliminating the double entries, or in my case, the 4 times 
> repeated entries. This is on a debian 3.0 install with
> 
> #mplayer deb source
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main
> 
> and mplayer installed.
> 
> (at least this seems to have cured the problem. :-) )

Many thanks Ken! I've been trying to find the source of those errors for
quite a while now. 

Take care,

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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus dot net> Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Dev. Branch 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
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