Created attachment 352894 [details, diff] assertion-failed patch and modified ebuild A little unfair and trivial perhaps, as gconf-editor has done this on every distro I have ever used. Start gconf-editor, open & close 5 or 6 keys - poof! it disappears. I believe everyone like myself has just learned to live with it, as usually you are only plugging in 1 or 2 items, so not worth worrying about, just restart if you must. If started from terminal you get something like "GConf:ERROR:gconf-client.c:2369:gconf_client_lookup: assertion failed:" But the issue was fixed by Gnome with a patch 17 months ago and it's such an easy fix I thought I would point it out. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670586. I have applied the patch shown there on both my ~amd64 and ~x86 installations and gconf-editor no longer crashes. At all. Before it always crashed. ALWAYS. Patch & modified ebuild attached for reference.
Created attachment 352896 [details] modified ebuild
Thank you for pointing this out. Are both version in the portage tree affected?
I just downgraded to 2.32.0 on the ~x86 machine, the answer appears to be no, it doesn't seem to exhibit the same bug. I cannot make it crash.
+*gconf-editor-3.0.1-r1 (11 Jul 2013) + + 11 Jul 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> + +files/gconf-editor-3.0.1-assertion-crash.patch, + +files/gconf-editor-3.0.1-drop-accel.patch, +gconf-editor-3.0.1-r1.ebuild: + Apply upstream patches to fix crasher (#476248 by Mike Johnson) and don't load + accel maps. +
