Bug#267938: majority of gnome application ceased to work

Jiri Maly Jiri Maly <~@8--0.net>, 267938@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:48:58 +0200


Package: gnome-core
Version: 48
Severity: grave
Tags: sid

After latest upgrade of unstable most of the gnome applications crash.
When i do start almost any Gnome application error reporting window
popups - "The Application .... has quit unexpectedly.".

Strace for example for gcalctool:

open("/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libredmond95.so", O_RDONLY) = 17
read(17, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\17"...,
512) = 512
fstat64(17, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11796, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 14900, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 17, 0) = 0x4001e000
old_mmap(0x40021000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
17, 0x2000) = 0x40021000
close(17)                               = 0
read(16, "", 4000)                      = 0
close(16)                               = 0
access("/home/jirik/.themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc", F_OK) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc", F_OK) = 0
lstat64("/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=82, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc",
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 16
read(16, "#\n# Default keybinding set. Empt"..., 4000) = 82
read(16, "", 4000)                      = 0
close(16)                               = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
write(3, "\22\0\20\0\1\0`\2\364\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\10_ID%\0\0\00011c"...,
72) = 72
write(3, " \0\2\0\0\0\0\0", 8)          = 8
write(3, "+\0\1\0", 4)                  = 4
read(3, "\34\366J\0\1\0`\2\364\0\0\0\16\241J\0\0\0\0\0\16\241J\0"...,
32) = 32
read(3, "\1\1M\0\0\0\0\0)\0@\2\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\30\0\0\0\220\362"..., 32)
= 32
fork()                                  = 348
waitpid(348, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0) = 348
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [SEGV RTMIN])
exit_group(1)                           = ?

-- System information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-k7

Versions of packages gnome-core depends on:
ii  bug-buddy      2.6.1-3        The GNOME Desktop Environment's bug 
reportin
ii  eog            2.6.1-1        Eye of Gnome graphics viewer program
ii  gedit          2.6.2-1        light-weight text editor
ii  gnome-applets  2.6.2.1-1      Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - 
binaries
ii  gnome-control- 2.6.1-12       The GNOME Control Center for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-icon-the 1.2.3-1        GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel    2.6.2-3        Launcher and docking facility for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-session  2.6.2-5        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal 2.6.1-6        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application
ii  metacity       2.8.1-4        A lightweight GTK2 based Window Manager
ii  nautilus       2.6.3b-3       file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
ii  scrollkeeper   0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging system 
for docu
ii  yelp           2.6.1-4        Help browser for GNOME 2
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and 
Timezone


-- 
Jiri

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