Re: Failed to parse vim.desktop file msgs

On Di, 27 Aug 2019, M Kelly wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I get many of these msgs on my system in syslog:
>
> Aug 27 15:02:15 <hostname> gnome-session[XXXX]: (gnome-software:YYYY): As-WARNING **: failed to rescan: Failed to parse /usr/local/share/applications/vim.desktop file: cannot process file of type application/x-desktop
>
> Anyone know why ?
> I do not get this warning with gvim even though there is a very similar gvim.desktop file in the same dir.
> I am installing from master and the /usr/local/share/applications/vim.desktop file gets copied there from make install
> I am on ubuntu 16.04 with newer kernel.  gnome-software verson is: 3.20.5

Check the desktop file if it contains invalid utf-8 or duplicate
entries. I believe Ubuntu 16.04 msgfmt is seriously brocken and we had
to work around it in the build script.

Best,
Christian
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