diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5503219a..5a5f5ab1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-03-27  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>
+
+	* tools/dbus-send.c (append_dict): Do not provide a signature to
+	dbus_message_iter_open_container() when opening a dict entry.
+
 2008-03-26  Colin Walters  <walters@verbum.org>
 
 	Patch from Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
diff --git a/tools/dbus-send.c b/tools/dbus-send.c
index 66d0bcf9..407c0497 100644
--- a/tools/dbus-send.c
+++ b/tools/dbus-send.c
@@ -150,14 +150,10 @@ append_dict (DBusMessageIter *iter, int keytype, int valtype, const char *value)
   while (val != NULL)
     {
       DBusMessageIter subiter;
-      char sig[3];
-      sig[0] = keytype;
-      sig[1] = valtype;
-      sig[2] = '\0';
       
       dbus_message_iter_open_container (iter,
 					DBUS_TYPE_DICT_ENTRY,
-					sig,
+					NULL,
 					&subiter);
 
       append_arg (&subiter, keytype, val);