Debian Patches
Status for cinnamon-menus/6.6.0-2
| Patch | Description | Author | Forwarded | Bugs | Origin | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| entry-directories-skip-entries-whose-desktop-file-id-is-n.patch | entry-directories: skip entries whose desktop file id is not valid UTF-8 The desktop file id is the entry's path relative to the application directory, with the separators turned into dashes, so any byte of the file or directory name that is not valid UTF-8 is handed out as-is by gmenu_tree_entry_get_desktop_file_id(). Introspection bindings refuse to convert such a string. In Cinnamon the menu applet reads the id for every entry in appUtils.js loadDirectory(), so a single badly named file anywhere under an applications directory makes cjs throw "String from C value is invalid UTF-8 and cannot be safely stored", the exception propagates out of the applet constructor, and the applet is never created: the menu button disappears from the panel entirely. Reported as https://bugs.debian.org/893510 in 2018 and again as linuxmint/cinnamon-menus#64 in 2023. Validate the id before handing it to the callback and skip the entry when it is not valid UTF-8, logging the offending path so it can be found and renamed. Doing it here rather than at load time also covers the case where the file name is fine but one of the directories leading to it is not. |
Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> | yes | debian | 2026-08-17 |