Debian Bug report logs - #906711
appstream glib error - not fixed in 0.12.2-2

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: appstream glib error - not fixed in 0.12.2-2

Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 20:41:35 -0500

Package: appstream
Version: 0.12.2-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

There were a number of bugs reported for appstream associated with glib
assertion failures. After upgrading from 0.12.2-1 to 0.12.2-2 there is still an
assertion failure:

(appstreamcli:18922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 20:19:06.758: g_variant_builder_end:
assertion '!GVSB(builder)->uniform_item_types || GVSB(builder)->prev_item_type
!= NULL || g_variant_type_is_definite (GVSB(builder)->type)' failed

(appstreamcli:18922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 20:19:06.758: g_variant_new_variant:
assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(appstreamcli:18922): GLib-ERROR **: 20:19:06.758: g_variant_new_parsed:
11-13:invalid GVariant format string


Previously appstream tripped up on:

 appstreamcli refresh-cache




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages appstream depends on:
ii  libappstream4  0.12.2-1
ii  libc6          2.27-5
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.56.1-2

appstream recommends no packages.

Versions of packages appstream suggests:
ii  apt-config-icons  0.12.2-1
ii  curl              7.61.0-1

-- debconf-show failed

Message #10 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>

To: william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>, 906711@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#906711: appstream glib error - not fixed in 0.12.2-2

Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:36:50 +0200

2018-08-20 3:41 GMT+02:00 william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>:
> Package: appstream
> Version: 0.12.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> There were a number of bugs reported for appstream associated with glib
> assertion failures. After upgrading from 0.12.2-1 to 0.12.2-2 there is still an
> assertion failure:
>
> (appstreamcli:18922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 20:19:06.758: g_variant_builder_end:
> assertion '!GVSB(builder)->uniform_item_types || GVSB(builder)->prev_item_type
> != NULL || g_variant_type_is_definite (GVSB(builder)->type)' failed
>
> (appstreamcli:18922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 20:19:06.758: g_variant_new_variant:
> assertion 'value != NULL' failed
>
> (appstreamcli:18922): GLib-ERROR **: 20:19:06.758: g_variant_new_parsed:
> 11-13:invalid GVariant format string

This indeed looks like a different issue from the one that appeared before.
I can not reproduce it here though, neither on Debian Testing nor on
Debian unstable.

Do you have any 3rd-party repos enabled?
Can you attach the output of `appstreamcli status` as well as of this
command please?

find /var/lib/app-info/ /var/cache/app-info/ /usr/share/app-info/ -not
-path "*/icons/*"

Cheers,
    Matthias

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Message #20 received at 906711@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Houmehr Aghabozorgi <haghabozorgi@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <906711@bugs.debian.org>

Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:21:04 -0700

Package: appstream
Version: 0.12.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #906711

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

I run debian testing, I was on 0.12.2-1 and went to do an apt-update per usual and got this message:

# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster InRelease             
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
                                                  
(appstreamcli:2734): GLib-CRITICAL **: 09:00:49.515: g_variant_builder_end: assertion '!GVSB(builder)->uniform_item_types || GVSB(builder)->prev_item_type != NULL || g_variant_type_is_definite (GVSB(builder)->type)' failed

(appstreamcli:2734): GLib-CRITICAL **: 09:00:49.515: g_variant_new_variant: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

(appstreamcli:2734): GLib-ERROR **: 09:00:49.515: g_variant_new_parsed: 11-13:invalid GVariant format string
Trace/breakpoint trap


I tried updating to 0.12.2-2 from sid repo and attempted to apt-update again but still getting same message.

I expect it to run through apt-get update without seeing this message or a better indication on how best to address the issue.

OUTPUTS that might help
# appstreamcli status
AppStream Status:
Version: 0.12.2

Distribution metadata:
 /usr/share/app-info
  - Empty.

 /var/lib/app-info
  - YAML: 6
  - Iconsets:
     debian-sid-non-free
     debian-buster-contrib
     debian-buster-non-free
     debian-buster-main
     debian-sid-main
     debian-sid-contrib

 /var/cache/app-info
  - Empty.

Metainfo files:
  - Found 91 components.
  - Found 1 components in legacy paths.

Summary:
We have information on 2265 software components.
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# find /var/lib/app-info/ /var/cache/app-info/ /usr/share/app-info/ -not -path "*/icons/*"
/var/lib/app-info/
/var/lib/app-info/yaml
/var/lib/app-info/yaml/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_non-free_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
/var/lib/app-info/yaml/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_contrib_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
/var/lib/app-info/yaml/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
/var/lib/app-info/yaml/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_non-free_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
/var/lib/app-info/yaml/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_main_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
/var/lib/app-info/yaml/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_contrib_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
/var/lib/app-info/icons
/var/cache/app-info/
/var/cache/app-info/gv
/var/cache/app-info/gv/en_US.gvz
/var/cache/app-info/gv/C.gvz
find: ‘/usr/share/app-info/’: No such file or directory



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages appstream depends on:
ii  libappstream4  0.12.2-1
ii  libc6          2.27-5
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.56.1-2

appstream recommends no packages.

Versions of packages appstream suggests:
ii  apt-config-icons  0.12.2-1
ii  curl              7.61.0-1

-- no debconf information

Message #25 received at 906711@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klumpp <mak@debian.org>

To: william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>, 906711@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#906711: appstream glib error - not fixed in 0.12.2-2

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:27:31 +0200

2018-08-20 17:48 GMT+02:00 william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>:
> [...]

Hmm, I still can't reproduce the issue - but:

2018-08-20 3:41 GMT+02:00 william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>:
> [...]
> Versions of packages appstream depends on:
> ii  libappstream4  0.12.2-1
> ii  libc6          2.27-5
> ii  libglib2.0-0   2.56.1-2
> [...]

Can you please ensure libappstream4 is up to date as well? The fix for
the previous issue actually is in the library, and if the library
isn't updated, you will obviously still have the older issue.
(I am quite tempted now to pass the -V flag to dh_shlibdeps...)

Cheers,
    Matthias

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Message #30 received at 906711-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klumpp <mak@debian.org>

To: william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>, 906711-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#906711: appstream glib error - not fixed in 0.12.2-2

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 20:13:50 +0200

2018-08-21 19:46 GMT+02:00 william l-k <william.james.kauffman@gmail.com>:
> I just confirmed that the issue still existed, then updated
> libappstream4=0.12.2-2.
>
> That was it. This fixed it for me.
>
> Nice work.
> [..]

Excellent! Closing this bug report.

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Cheers,
    Matthias

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