I can't reproduce this. Are you running this from GNOME? Do you have the dbus session bus running? This could also be an issue with your theme engine, try to switch to the default theme engine.

- D-bus is on.
Plus I changed now the gtk+ engine them to Clearlooks with switch2, Firefox crashed, and I got this>

Distribution: Unknown
Gnome Release: 2.24.2 2008-11-28 (Archlinux)
BugBuddy Version: 2.24.2

System: Linux 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 21 09:31:10 UTC 2008 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10503000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Enabled
GTK+ Theme: MurrinaGilouche
Icon Theme: Neu

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



----------- .xsession-errors (26 sec old) ---------------------
(gnome-panel:3488): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_view_get_selection: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_VIEW (tree_view)' failed
(gnome-panel:3488): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_selection_unselect_all: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_SELECTION (selection)' failed
(gnome-panel:3488): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `GtkTreeView'
(gnome-panel:3488): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_view_get_selection: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_VIEW (tree_view)' failed
(gnome-panel:3488): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_selection_unselect_all: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_SELECTION (selection)' failed
(firefox:4805): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_colormap_query_color: assertion `GDK_IS_COLORMAP (colormap)' failed
(firefox:4805): Gtk-CRITICAL **: _gtk_container_queue_resize: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed
(firefox:4805): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
--------------------------------------------------

And how to compile the gnome-control-center package with gdb support ? -I tried to debug it (the gnome-appearance-properties), but gdb said "no debugging symbols" :(.

To compile with debug symbols, you need to add "!strip" to the options array in either makepkg.conf or the PKGBUILD of the package. Further, you'll need to add -g to CFLAGS.
The bug-buddy output still shows MurrinaGilouche as theme engine btw.

"The bug-buddy output still shows MurrinaGilouche as theme engine btw."
That's the problem, I can see the ClearLooks theme, but why bug-buddy gives MurrinaGiloche ?
That's not all, bud-buddy gave me another strange output, it said cannot use amsn sound.wav :D.

What is a wav related to a window :D ?

For the debug thing:
"you'll need to add -g to CFLAGS."
where're the CFLAGS ?

Is the PKGBUILD ok now> http://rafb.net/p/xKHn3087.html,
cause it's not compiling, see the logs> http://rafb.net/p/g9gSSZ84.html, http://rafb.net/p/ruBF7W63.html
(the > operator :( didn't add the makepkg output, that's why separate pastes).

Why do you try to compile 2.22.0 while the current version is at 2.24?

Your PKGBUILD contains one problem: it should export the CFLAGS, otherwise it won't get picked up by configure.

That's odd, why in the ABS directory was only the old version, I manually downloaded the 3 new files from svn, I had problems with the patch (encoding problems) but I save the file with save in Firefox and it passed in makepkg.

Ok, it's maked successfully.
http://rafb.net/p/JhQRIA10.html, now I got the Debug Symbols, see if can find anything, I'm going to gdb 8-) it :).

You might want to recompile glib2 and gtk2 also with debug symbols to get more information.

Here it is> http://rafb.net/p/aZHyJT39.html, I remaked glib and gtk2 with debbuging symbols.

I played with gdb and I found out that the list model is not ok,

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb75f5430 in gtk_icon_view_accessible_model_row_changed (tree_model=0x91441a8, path=0x960a3b0, iter=0x9479140,
user_data=0x9091018) at gtkiconview.c:8898
(gdb) next
0xb7ef5b70 in bugbuddy_segv_handle () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so

The gdb stop at gtkiconview.c at line 8898 which contains> item = a11y_item->item;
so I guess this ally_item is empty.

P.S: Is there a better program based on gdb, cause I don't have find option in the code view.

Ok, I installed ddd and I launched the program from ddd, then it started with Theme tab, I was able to change everything, I tried to change Background from Gnome's Desktop but again crash, here is the new bug-buddy info> http://rafb.net/p/QqOXx734.html.

Also I tried from gnome-terminal to start gnome-appearance-properties with -p, I tried all combinations (theme|background|fonts|interface) they all crash it.

Ow there is the problem, if I start the thread from ddd with -p with what ever page it crashes.
(ddd was so frozen that I had to kill it, whole Gnome Desktop didn't work, after kill-ing(ddd) now it's unfrozen :) )

what is the status of this?

Well, I can start the gnome-appearance-properties, everything work, except it loads incredibly slow, and when I close it, the process sits a lot of time until I kill it. While it's there it uses over 80% of the processor.

Ok, I found a little workaround to stop the gnome-appearance-properties from blocking the whole system> Carefully observing the processes and I found that there are 2 instances of gnome-appearance-properties. When I killed the second (the newer one) after closing the gnome-appearance-properties window, the system was fine.

So the code>
kill `ps -A | grep "gnome-appearanc" | awk -F"?" '{print $1}' | sed "s/ //" | tail -1`
fixes the issue.

I will search the reason why the gnome-appearance-properties starts two instances.

I tried starting gnome-appearance-properties from:
* Terminal
* Control center
* Gnome Menu
They all start gnome-appearance-properties with 2 instances.

P.S>
the command above doesn't work if gnome-appearance-properties is started in ps[N] i.e the shell.
Here is a quick fix>
kill "`ps -A | grep gnome-appearanc | awk -F"?" '{print $1}' | sed "s/ //" | tail -1 | sed -e "s/[pts].*$//"`"
8-).

Is this still valid with Gnome 2.28?