FS#10824 - Bug in Glib2 causes GTK apps to randomly crash when showing file chooser.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Saturday, 05 July 2008, 05:28 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 06 July 2008, 13:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Many GTK apps crash when opening a file chooser and report the following in a terminal:
GLib-GObject-ERROR **: g_type_plugin_*() invalidly modified type `GThemedIcon'


Additional info:
* Affected packages: glib2 2.16.3-1 from [core]
* Affects all packages that use the standard GTK+ file chooser.


Steps to reproduce:
* Open any GNOME app and attempt to open/save a file. Randomly, the app will crash when the file chooser should appear. This is not very predictable but happens with evince, eye-of-gnome and firefox on my machine.

Fix:
A patch from the openSuse bugzilla is attached:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=385128
   gobject-class-init-threading.... (7.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Sunday, 06 July 2008, 13:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 05 July 2008, 05:38 GMT
Its already been fixed upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537555 . Glib2 has already been updated for i686. Its just a matter of updating it for x86_64 which im sure JGC will do soon. IMO you had better flagged it out of date.
Comment by Robert Howard (iBertus) - Saturday, 05 July 2008, 05:42 GMT
Cool. It would seem the package has already been flagged out of date.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 05 July 2008, 05:44 GMT
It wasnt. I just did that after reading this report :)

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