From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 This is with Fedora Core 1.90 updated to "development". Description of problem: Both desktop-file-install and desktop-file-validate break out in panic when being run on KDE desktop files which have the comment # KDE Config File as the first line. Example: $ cd /usr/share/applications/kde $ desktop-file-validate ktip.desktop ** ERROR **: file validate.c: line 517 (enum_sections): assertion failed: (name != NULL) aborting... Trace/breakpoint trap If I take out the comment, the tools are happy. $ grep -v '^#' ktip.desktop > /tmp/ktip.desktop $ diff -u ktip.desktop /tmp/ktip.desktop --- ktip.desktop 2004-01-17 13:48:22.000000000 +0100 +++ /tmp/ktip.desktop 2004-03-01 17:00:29.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -# KDE Config File [KDE Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Kandalf's Tips Then desktop-file-validate accepts the modified file and spits out the errors it finds (which I don't quote here). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): desktop-file-utils-0.4-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run desktop-file-validate on some of the desktop files in /usr/share/applications/kde. All that have the "# KDE Config File" comment, cause the error.
desktop-file-validate is in error when it complains about the assertion. d-f-v creates a blank section for initial comments, but that first blank section is still passed to enum_sections(), which contains the assertion that doesn't accept a NULL name. Investigating fix.
fixed in desktop-file-utils-0.4-2, should show up in rawhide today. Patch is also upstreamed to freedesktop.org