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checkbox dbus service spewing lots of TypeErrors

Bug #1295111 reported by Brendan Donegan on 2014-03-20

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Checkbox	Fix Released	Critical	Zygmunt Krynicki	Checkbox plainbox-0.5

Bug Description

I've started seeing tons of errors coming out of the checkbox dbus service. This pastebin contains a dump of these errors from a run of checkbox-gui: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7125095/

Related branches

lp://staging/~zyga/checkbox/fix-1295111

Merged into lp://staging/checkbox at revision 2817

Zygmunt Krynicki (community): Approve on 2014-03-23

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Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) wrote on 2014-03-20:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/brendand/src/checkbox/trunk/checkbox-ng/checkbox_ng/dbus_ex/service.py", line 350, in Set
    prop.__set__(self, value)
  File "/home/brendand/src/checkbox/trunk/checkbox-ng/checkbox_ng/dbus_ex/service.py", line 203, in __set__
    self._setf(instance, value)
  File "/home/brendand/src/checkbox/trunk/checkbox-ng/checkbox_ng/service.py", line 1025, in metadata
    self.native.metadata.app_id = bytes(value.get('app_id', ''))
TypeError: string argument without an encoding

Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) on 2014-03-20

Changed in checkbox:
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → Critical
assignee:	nobody → Zygmunt Krynicki (zkrynicki)
milestone:	none → plainbox-0.5

Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) on 2014-03-23

Changed in checkbox:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) on 2014-03-24

Changed in checkbox:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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