The following was reported on the Debian bug tracker (at http://bugs.debian.org/474264). It resembles the crash in bug #481741, but is slightly different.


When executing f-spot via ssh (ssh -X otheruser@localhost f-spot),
f-spot segfaults, because gconfd-2 is not running.

| /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 &
| dbus-launch f-spot

solves the problem for me.

-- Stacktrace:
(/usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe:15869): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
/tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.16.1/gobject/gtype.c:2248: initialization
assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function

(/usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe:15869): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(/usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe:15869): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Stacktrace:

  at (wrapper managed-to-native) GConf.Client.gconf_client_get_default
() <0x00004>
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) GConf.Client.gconf_client_get_default
() <0xffffffff>
  at GConf.Client..ctor () <0x0003b>
  at FSpot.GConfPreferenceBackend.get_Client () <0x0001f>
  at FSpot.GConfPreferenceBackend.AddNotify
(string,FSpot.NotifyChangedHandler) <0x00033>
  at FSpot.Preferences.get_Backend () <0x0007c>
  at FSpot.Preferences.Get (string) <0x00074>
  at FSpot.Driver.Main (string[]) <0x00112>
  at (wrapper runtime-invoke) FSpot.Driver.runtime_invoke_int_string[]
(object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>