From c9b73ac7312774b4cfa7c40323f56b5bb9f8fdc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre@mecheye.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] shell-global: Handle empty variants better

In cases where we have an array of 0 elements or similar, the
data returned may be NULL. Since g_file_replace_contents will
assert in this case, simply check for this and delete the file
instead.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710137
---
 src/shell-global.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/shell-global.c b/src/shell-global.c
index e711dff09..99aad50b8 100644
--- a/src/shell-global.c
+++ b/src/shell-global.c
@@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ shell_global_set_runtime_state (ShellGlobal  *global,
 
   path = get_runtime_state_path (global, property_name);
 
-  if (variant == NULL)
+  if (variant == NULL || g_variant_get_data (variant) == NULL)
     (void) g_file_delete (path, NULL, NULL);
   else
     {