I think this might tie into a previous bug report I made regarding theme-manager crashing. Basically, I think that applications are crashing because many keys in gconf have what would seem like wrong types (integer for boolean etc...). I have tried (using info from that bug report) to copy the default gconf from /etc/gconf/*defaults* to no avail. When I create a brand new user, I have the same exact problems. For example, on the first login, if I try to launch theme manager it will crash and I will have to modify some keys manually before I can gain functionality. I think this is also affecting other apps (as I have said before). Example is mozilla and therefore epiphany which leaves the following in .gnomerc-errors: (gnome-background-properties:21948): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 718 (gconf_value_copy): assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-background-properties:21948): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 836 (gconf_value_get_string): assertion `value != NULL' failed (gnome-background-properties:21948): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 802 (gconf_value_free): assertion `value != NULL' failed (gnome-background-properties:21948): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 802 (gconf_value_free): assertion `value != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:22214): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 729 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:22214): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1510 (gtk_icon_set_new_from_pixbuf): assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:22214): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 192 (gtk_icon_factory_add): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed I am not completeley sure about these conclusions or the source of the mistake and that is why I have posted it as a general gconf problem. If there is anything I can do to try to narrow down the problem please let me know. I greatly appreciate your help Regards Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make new user 2. login 3. start epiphany and browse some sites, or try starting theme-manager Actual Results: crashing applications Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.5.66-mm2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-overlay/" USE="x86 oss 3dnow crypt gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mpeg nls png quicktime spell xml2 xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww perl esd imlib gnome opengl mozilla X gtk gtk2 ncurses apm arts avi cdr dvd encode qt kde imap mmx motif oggvorbis alsa pdflib python samba readline sse truetype xmms cups icc ssl" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
well, i don't really know what to say. maybe there's some corruption in your /etc/gconf? have you tried emerging gconf and then epiphany again? if that doesn't work, could you attach a tarball of the files in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/epiphany ?
Created attachment 11201 [details] gziped tar of /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults Sorry for the delayed response. I have tried several times to rebuild gconf and also have tried making new users etc.. but always, the user shows up with blank icons, a black background and non functioning applications. After manually editing using the gconf editor, some things start working hence my conclusion that something with the gconf settings is messing stuff up. Interestingly, epiphany and mozilla both work much better in kde but not so well in gnome. It just seems that I need to reset everything to the default. However, I don't think any of the ebuilds to that and I can't find a default gconf setting for download anyplace.
OK, somewhere between emerging all of the packages related to gnome and deleting users and directories, this seem to have solved most of the problems. However, some problems still remain. One particular problem for which I am making a new bug (bug # 20244).
