Downgrading libgsf to 1.10.0 solves the problem. This backtrace created from working gnumeric and libgsf (without debug info) (gdb) bt #0 0xb7fb9e4f in gsf_doc_meta_data_foreach () from /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.1 #1 0xb7fbc2a0 in gsf_msole_metadata_write () from /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so.1 #2 0xb736c6de in excel_file_open () from /usr/lib/gnumeric/1.4.3/plugins/excel/excel.so #3 0x080f1b30 in plugin_service_plugin_loader_generate_type () #4 0x0814052b in workbook_view_new () #5 0x0814073f in wb_view_save_as () #6 0x080c7593 in gui_file_save_as () #7 0xb79a58a6 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #8 0xb798f1cb in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #9 0xb79a3c9d in g_signal_has_handler_pending () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #10 0xb79a51c8 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #11 0xb79a54b6 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #12 0xb7afe203 in gtk_action_create_menu_item () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #13 0xb7afe7bd in gtk_action_activate () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #14 0xb79a58a6 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #15 0xb798f1cb in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #16 0xb79a3c9d in g_signal_has_handler_pending () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.KOI8-R" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp3.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/Gentoo/portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cmucl crypt cups curl directfb doc dvd dvdr emboss esd fam fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib jpeg leim libg++ libwww mad maildir matrox mikmod mmx motif mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc mysql ncurses network nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_matrox userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
The gnumeric developers told me the 1.4 series won't work with >=libgsf-1.12 , i've fixed the dependencies accordingly, that should work around this for now. Thanks for the report.
