CRITICAL **: egg_desktop_entries (ERRORS)

Robert Wallace ubuntu-user at siliconchaos.com
Thu Jun 22 23:47:19 UTC 2006


w1z4rd,

You need to use "sudo update-desktop-database -v" you need the -v in
order to get the detail as to which file is causing the problem.

I've kinda cleaned up the instructions and posted them here

http://blog.siliconchaos.net/articles/2006/06/20/my-desktop-got-eggd

hope this helps....

Robert

On 6/21/06, w1z4rd <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> w1z4rd Wrote:
> > I think I just made mine worse.... ive got this error everywhere now :(
> > This is what I did:
>
> >
>
> > >
> Code:
> --------------------
>   >   > w1z4rd at b0x:~/src/fluxbox-1.0rc$ cd /usr/share/applications
>
>   > w1z4rd at b0x:/usr/share/applications$ sudo update-desktop-database
>
>   > 'ould not parse file '/usr/share/applications/kde/kcheckgmail.desktop': desktop entry contain unknown encoding 'UTF-8
>
>   >
>
>   > ** (process:32046): CRITICAL **: egg_desktop_entries_add_group: assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed
>
>   > w1z4rd at b0x:/usr/share/applications$ sudo apt-get remove kcheckgmail
>
>   > Reading package lists... Done
>
>   > Building dependency tree... Done
>
>   > The following packages will be REMOVED:
>
>   > kcheckgmail
>
>   > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
>   > Need to get 0B of archives.
>
>   > After unpacking 594kB disk space will be freed.
>
>   > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>
>   > (Reading database ... 179554 files and directories currently installed.)
>
>   > Removing kcheckgmail ...
>
>   > w1z4rd at b0x:/usr/share/applications$ sudo update-desktop-database
>
>   >
>
>   > ** (process:32153): CRITICAL **: egg_desktop_entries_add_group: assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed
>
>   > w1z4rd at b0x:/usr/share/applications$ sudo update-desktop-database
>
>   >
>
>   > ** (process:32372): CRITICAL **: egg_desktop_entries_add_group: assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed
>
>   > w1z4rd at b0x:/usr/share/applications$ cat /usr/share/applications/kde/kcheckgmail.desktop
>
>   > cat: /usr/share/applications/kde/kcheckgmail.desktop: No such file or directory
>
>   > w1z4rd at b0x:/usr/share/applications$ sudo update-desktop-database
>
>   >
> --------------------
> > >
>
> ,.
>
>
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> w1z4rd
>
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