diff --git a/PackageKit.spec b/PackageKit.spec
index 1bb6762..faaea65 100644
--- a/PackageKit.spec
+++ b/PackageKit.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Summary:   Package management service
 Name:      PackageKit
 Version:   0.7.2
-Release:   1%{?dist}
+Release:   2%{?dist}
 License:   GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
 URL:       http://www.packagekit.org
 Source0:   http://www.packagekit.org/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Patch0:    PackageKit-0.3.8-Fedora-Vendor.conf.patch
 # Fedora specific: the yum backend doesn't do time estimation correctly
 Patch1:    PackageKit-0.4.4-Fedora-turn-off-time.conf.patch
 
+# https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44965
+Patch2: null-is-not-a-string.patch
+
 Requires: PackageKit-glib = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: PackageKit-backend
 Requires: shared-mime-info
@@ -243,6 +246,7 @@ user to restart the computer or remove and re-insert the device.
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1 -b .fedora
 %patch1 -p1 -b .no-time
+%patch2 -p1 -b .null
 
 %build
 %configure \
@@ -454,6 +458,9 @@ update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/packagekit-plugin.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 20 2012 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 0.7.2-2
+- Fix gnome-settings-daemon crashes
+
 * Tue Jan 17 2012 Richard Hughes  <rhughes@redhat.com> - 0.7.2-1
 - New upstream release.
 - Remove upstreamed patches
diff --git a/null-is-not-a-string.patch b/null-is-not-a-string.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe1e460
--- /dev/null
+++ b/null-is-not-a-string.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -up PackageKit-0.7.2/lib/packagekit-glib2/pk-control.c.null PackageKit-0.7.2/lib/packagekit-glib2/pk-control.c
+--- PackageKit-0.7.2/lib/packagekit-glib2/pk-control.c.null	2012-01-20 00:02:52.422053263 -0500
++++ PackageKit-0.7.2/lib/packagekit-glib2/pk-control.c	2012-01-20 00:04:04.368050690 -0500
+@@ -1175,12 +1175,12 @@ pk_control_set_proxy2_async (PkControl *
+ 	state->res = g_object_ref (res);
+ 	state->control = g_object_ref (control);
+ 	state->parameters = g_variant_new ("(ssssss)",
+-					   proxy_http,
+-					   proxy_https,
+-					   proxy_ftp,
+-					   proxy_socks,
+-					   no_proxy,
+-					   pac);
++					   proxy_http ? proxy_http : "",
++					   proxy_https ? proxy_https : "",
++					   proxy_ftp ? proxy_ftp : "",
++					   proxy_socks ? proxy_socks : "",
++					   no_proxy ? no_proxy : "",
++					   pac ? pac : "");
+ 	if (cancellable != NULL)
+ 		state->cancellable = g_object_ref (cancellable);
+