Bug#284408: gnome-desktop: assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed

[Ross Boylan]

Package: gnome-desktop
Severity: normal

I am unable to assess what package is responsible for this problem, or
its seriousness.  It may be merely cosmetic.

I basically track testing.  My latest upgrade, which included lots of
Gnome stuff, produced many errors like
** (process:21643): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed

I got 3 of these after each of

Setting up bug-buddy (2.8.0-2) ...
Setting up eog (2.8.1-1.1) ...
Setting up gnome-gv (2.8.0-1) ...
Setting up gnome-terminal (2.8.0-2) ...
Setting up grip (3.2.0-3) ...

Each group had its own process number.  Otherwise the messages were
the same.

But none after Setting up gnome-session (2.8.1-3) ...

Here's the complete list of packages upgraded:
# apt-get -q dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  desktop-file-utils libcurl3
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt-move base-files bug-buddy css-mode dhcp-dns dialog eog euro-support euro-support-console euro-support-x
  findutils gconf2 gnome-desktop-data gnome-gv gnome-session gnome-terminal grip grub-doc iproute libbonoboui2-0
  libbonoboui2-common libeel2-2 libeel2-data libgconf2-4 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomeui-0
  libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libmetacity0 libnautilus2-2 lilo lilo-doc nautilus
  nautilus-data rasmol rsync sylpheed sylpheed-i18n winesetuptk
42 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26advncdfs
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)