Bug 109311 – theme manager crashes on start

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Bug 109311 - theme manager crashes on start


Summary:	theme manager crashes on start


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 106350

Product:	gnome-control-center
Classification:	Core
Component:	[obsolete] theme-manager
Version:	2.2.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Control-Center Maintainers
QA Contact:	Control-Center Maintainers

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2003-03-27 01:53 UTC by Jim Scott
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.1/2.2

Attachments
stack trace (686 bytes, text/plain) 2003-03-27 01:54 UTC, Jim Scott	Details

Description Jim Scott 2003-03-27 01:53:18 UTC

I get a crash each time I try to start the theme manager applet. Don't know
if it's a theme manager issue. I've been upgrading to 2.2 by installing
from the latest source packages. Somehow, all my icons have disappeared
from the Foot menu and nautilus. The last time that happened, I was able to
change the nautilus theme to restore the icons.

I've tried changing the nautilus theme by hand and through gconf. Neither
change has any effect.

I don't know if the

Comment 1 Jim Scott 2003-03-27 01:54:11 UTC

Created attachment 15222 [details]
stack trace

Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2003-03-27 18:09:07 UTC

Pasting the backtrace inline to make it easier to search...

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/local/bin/gnome-theme-manager'

0x404e88a7 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 35320

#0 waitpid
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 646
#2 __pthread_clock_settime
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3 __libc_sigaction
from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 update_themes_from_disk
at gnome-theme-manager.c line 600
#5 setup_dialog
at gnome-theme-manager.c line 1168
#6 main
at gnome-theme-manager.c line 1383
#7 __libc_start_main
from /lib/libc.so.6

Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2003-03-27 18:14:35 UTC

Looks like the stack trace in bug 106350--may be a duplicate.

Setting severity->critical, and adding the bugsquad keyword.

Comment 4 Carl B. Constantine 2003-03-28 15:20:39 UTC

The same thing happens to me. I upgraded to Gnome 2.2 in Debian just
recently and that so far seems to be the only major problem I have is
the segfault in the theme manager. I removed all my orbit directories
from /tmp and even removed all my ~/.gnome* directories but still the
same problem exists ;-(

Comment 5 Jim Scott 2003-03-28 15:34:53 UTC

This looks like a known issue. In gnome-theme-manager.c at lines
301-306, gtk_theme and icon_theme are read as 0x0 then changed to
"Default". The window_theme is read correctly.

Comment 6 Jim Scott 2003-03-28 22:12:35 UTC

I don't have a "Default" icon theme installed. I think the problem was
that when gnome-theme-manager didn't find a value for the
ICON_THEME_KEY, it set the value to "Default". This caused the crash,
because I don't have a "Default" icon theme.

I did a gconftool-2 --type=string --set
/desktop/gnome/interface-icon_theme gnome. The theme manager now seems
to be running properly.

Maybe theme manager should use "gnome" instead of "Default" as the
fallback icon theme?

Comment 7 Andrew Sobala 2003-03-28 22:51:27 UTC

Marking as a duplicate of bug 106350

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106350 ***