Please describe the problem:
When starting the trunk revision 1694 from a terminal the following message is output:

***MEMORY-WARNING***: gthumb[16762]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...


Steps to reproduce:
1. build svn trunk rev 1694 on Ubuntu Edgy
2. install it
3. issue 'gthumb' in a terminal window and watch the output 


Actual results:
The message is written and I get worried

Expected results:
No message

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
This is not seen on Fedora systems according to Mike who also provided a patch I will upload shortly that will prevent the message on my system too. It is probably some kind of race condition so the bug is likely still lurking around and might pop up on other systems or again if the load situation changes.