Bug 115484 – [GTK] Segmentation Fault with Romanian locale. Evolution not starting.

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Amuraritei Andrei]

Description:
Evolution crashes with this error: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_internal: assertion `!(flags & G_PARAM_STATIC_NAME) || is_canonical (name)' failed. When started with LC_ALL=C, all seems to work ok. My system locale is set to Polish. The bug is mentioned in this forum thread:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1263148. Also gnome online accounts are affected by this - when adding account with Google, Facebook or Windows Live, it crashes.

Also this happens for Romanian locale (ro_RO.UTF8).

Changing locale, or removing /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/WebKitGTK-3.0.mo, like specified in the bug posted on https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34926 lets Evolution start correctly using English language.

[Amuraritei Andrei]

This is the error message received while starting Evolution in the terminal:

(evolution:22604): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_internal: assertion `!(flags & G_PARAM_STATIC_NAME) || is_canonical (name)' failed
[1]    22604 segmentation fault (core dumped)

[Zan Dobersek]

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34926 also gives specific information on what's wrong, albeit a bit aggressively.

> Permanent fix: Stab the face of whoever authored the 386th line of Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitviewportattributes.cpp in WebKit source code. (It erroneously marks a string for translation, which the overzealous and unsuspecting translator picked up.)

and

> Oh, just noticed they also earned it for the 406th line in the same file. (Same problem.) Wonder if there is more.

[Zan Dobersek]

Trivial grepping shows these are the only two cases.

[Zan Dobersek]

Created attachment 200235 [details]
Patch

[Build Bot]

Comment on attachment 200235 [details]
Patch

Attachment 200235 [details] did not pass mac-wk2-ews (mac-wk2):
Output: http://webkit-queues.appspot.com/results/362112

New failing tests:
fast/frames/crash-remove-iframe-during-object-beforeload.html

[Build Bot]

Created attachment 200238 [details]
Archive of layout-test-results from webkit-ews-13 for mac-mountainlion-wk2

The attached test failures were seen while running run-webkit-tests on the mac-wk2-ews.
Bot: webkit-ews-13  Port: mac-mountainlion-wk2  Platform: Mac OS X 10.8.2

[Zan Dobersek]

Comment on attachment 200235 [details]
Patch

Clearing flags on attachment: 200235

Committed r149486: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/149486>

[Zan Dobersek]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

[Amuraritei Andrei]

(In reply to comment #8)
> All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

Thanks for the prompt resolve. Happy Easter.