Bug 447749

Summary: switchdesk.desktop': Key file contains line '???...
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nerijus Baliūnas <nerijus>
Component: switchdeskAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
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Description Nerijus Baliūnas 2008-05-21 15:43:09 UTC 
When I update with yum, I get:
  Updating  : banshee                      ##################### [ 57/154] 
Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/switchdesk.desktop': Key file
contains line '????????? ?????????????' which is not a key-value pair, group, or
comment
  Updating  : virt-manager                 ##################### [ 58/154] 
Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/switchdesk.desktop': Key file
contains line '????????? ?????????????' which is not a key-value pair, group, or
comment

It seems line Comment[ml] is broken.

# rpm -qf /usr/share/applications/switchdesk.desktop
switchdesk-gui-4.0.9-2.noarch
# rpm -V switchdesk-gui-4.0.9-2.noarch
Comment 1 Ted Powell 2008-11-27 21:50:10 UTC 
Problem still exists in switchdesk-gui-4.0.9-3.fc9.noarch
In this version, /usr/share/applications/switchdesk.desktop, line 102, which begins with "Comment[ml]=", contains a bogus linebreak, so the tail of the line appears as line 103. Since the characters are mostly Malayalam, the error message shows them as question marks.

I first observed the problem circa 2008-03-10. In the then-current version, the first half of the broken line was exactly 80 characters long, so in an 80-column window it was not obvious that the remainder of the line was a separate line rather than simply wrapped.

In vi, the fix is trivial:  102GJZZ
Comment 2 Ted Powell 2008-11-27 21:50:44 UTC 
Ted Powell
Comment 3 Jerry Amundson 2008-12-10 18:13:29 UTC 
*** Bug 473855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Than Ngo 2008-12-13 22:09:31 UTC 
it's fixed in 4.0.9-4, thanks for your report.