Slab popups all the time

[Magic31]

Pitty...

If you look in the given folders, and the creation date for directories and files.. don't one or two stick out?
I can have a go to replicate this.. but that probably won't be before Monday.

edit: I just realised you can also have a look in the GNOME config editor:

Start gconf-editor in a terminal or using the menu's more applications, then open the keys Desktop > Gnome > Url-handlers

Maybe you can find the handler thats causing the error by having a look through the handler configurations.

[guydeschepper]

Did some more searching and I noticed that when I run an application from the command line I don't get the annoying popup !

For example:
1) opening F-Spot from the menu opens the application but also shows the slab related error
2) double clicking on an image on my desktop (e.g. a screenshot that I saved on my desktop) opens it in F-Spot AND shows the slab related error
3) opening a terminal and typing f-spot opens the application AND DOESN't show the slab related error

So there must be some extra calls when invoking an application from the menu (or when double clicking a shortcut associated with an application) in comparison to launching the application from the terminal.

Any suggestions ?

[guydeschepper]

Originally Posted by Magic31

If you look in the given folders, and the creation date for directories and files.. don't one or two stick out?

There are no modification and/or creation dates that stick out.

Originally Posted by Magic31

edit: I just realised you can also have a look in the GNOME config editor:

Start gconf-editor in a terminal or using the menu's more applications, then open the keys Desktop > Gnome > Url-handlers

Maybe you can find the handler thats causing the error by having a look through the handler configurations.

I already had a look in the gconf-editor but I can't find anything fancy over there.

[kedaly]

This has something to do with VMWare Player on my system and mime types installed upon launching VMWare Player.

Steps to reproduce
1. Create a new account / will work without the slab error
2. Install VMWare Player
3. Launch VMWare Player and launch a Windows VM (May work with a linux VM, don't know).
4. The slab error will then appear.

This is the error that is produced:

Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'

[kedaly]

I have also noticed that if you remove slab, the problem is gone.

[fjn026]

Ditto for me. It seems to have happened after installing the VMWare Remote Console plugin and desktop shortcut to one of my remotely-hosted VMs.

[guydeschepper]

ok, so this definitely seems to be a vmware related problem in combination with the slab menu.

Any ideas if this is openSUSE 11.1 specific ?

[kedaly]

I'm using VMWare Player 2.5 with Slab on OpenSuse 11.0 and it works fine. I'll look at installing the latest and greatest VMWare Build to see what happens.

[kedaly]

This is specific to OpenSuse 11.1, I installed the latest VMWare player in my 11.0 opensuse box with no problems.

[guydeschepper]

Thanks for reporting back kedaly.
Maybe I should create a bugreport for this...