Crash in guake.py

[pingou]

abrt detected a crash.

How to reproduce
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1. install guake
2. start guake
3. n/a

Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: guake -OO /usr/lib64/guake/guake.py 
component: guake
executable: /usr/lib64/guake/guake.py
kernel: 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
package: guake-0.4.0-2.fc12
uuid: f8e8d949    

Backtrace:

Summary: TBf8e8d949 guake.py:397:configure_terminal:TypeError: Vte.Terminal.set_word_chars() argument 1 must be string, not None

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 1080, in <module>
    guake = Guake()
  File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 557, in __init__
    self.add_tab()
  File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 929, in add_tab
    box = GuakeTerminalBox()
  File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 448, in __init__
    self.terminal = GuakeTerminal()
  File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 388, in __init__
    self.configure_terminal()
  File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 397, in configure_terminal
    self.set_word_chars(word_chars)
TypeError: Vte.Terminal.set_word_chars() argument 1 must be string, not None

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <GuakeTerminal object at 0x28ff050 (VteTerminal at 0x2993000)>
client: <gconf.Client object at 0x28fddc0 (GConfClient at 0x269cf00)>
word_chars: None

Original report:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538532

[lincoln]

Hello there. I'm not sure that it is a bug. This happens when guake schemas file is not correctly installed.

[pingou]

hm, something weird must have happened then since the schema is installed directly via the RPM.

I am wondering if there is not something going wrong sometime with the way it is done. This only happens the first time AFAIK.

[pingou]

I'll close the bug for the moment, to me it is a gconf fedora related issue.

I'll see what can be done if I get more of these bugs

[kiyer]

As you said above, this seems to be a guake schemas problem. So that it's on your radar, it's also caused if you uninstall the guake package in Ubuntu 10.10 and then attempt to reinstall from source. The same fix that you mention in the FAQ (gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule data/guake.schemas) also works to fix this.