#692 lxsession-default-apps hangs on updating database

[Freddy Willemsen]

Compiled lxsession 0.5.0 this morning (Fedora20, x86_64). When opening lxsession-default-apps it hangs on 'updating database'. The log file showed the following error:

Message: desktop-files-backend.vala:257: Scanning folder: /usr/share/app-install/desktop
Message: desktop-files-backend.vala:278: Start scanning

Error: list_files failed: No such file or directory

AFAIK Fedora stores desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Creating the beforementioned directory fixes the issue. But I suspect Fedora will not start carrying /usr/share/app-install/desktop in the (near) future.

[jcsl]

Hi.

Same here using openSUSE 13.1 x86_64. Attached image showing the error. Closing the popup window doesn't finish the application, I have to use Ctrl+C.

Btw, message is not translated to Spanish.

Greetings.

[Balló György]

I created the following patch that fixes the problem:
https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/patches/479/

[Freddy Willemsen]

Above patch seems to be working fine.

[Freddy Willemsen]

Compiled from a fresh snapshot this morning, it seems that commit 04a5a75ba10adeee261dc46a78314a08cfe093f3 has resolved this issue.