test@miramis ~ $ ls -lha
total 28K
drwxr-xr-x 3 test test 4.0K Mar 23 11:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Mar 23 10:46 ..
-rw------- 1 test test   16 Mar 23 10:47 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test  127 Mar 19 01:59 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test  193 Mar 19 01:59 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test  551 Mar 19 01:59 .bashrc
drwx------ 2 test test 4.0K Jul  3  2007 .ssh
test@miramis ~ $ gdb gnucash
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnucash...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnucash 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time.

[New Thread 0x7fffdcb90700 (LWP 19210)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
g_utf8_validate (str=0x0, max_len=-1, end=0x0) at gutf8.c:1800
1800    gutf8.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  g_utf8_validate (str=0x0, max_len=-1, end=0x0) at gutf8.c:1800
#1  0x00007ffff31c1162 in gconf_value_from_corba_value (value=0x68b900) at gconf-internals.c:181
#2  0x00007ffff31ce68e in gconf_engine_all_entries (conf=<optimized out>, dir=0x7ffff40d3ad1 "/desktop/gnome/sound", err=<optimized out>) at gconf.c:1787
#3  0x00007ffff31d1de4 in cache_pairs_in_dir (client=0x675f00, dir=0x7ffff40d3ad1 "/desktop/gnome/sound", recursive=0) at gconf-client.c:971
#4  0x00007ffff31d4ebb in gconf_client_add_dir (client=0x675f00, dirname=0x7ffff40d3ad1 "/desktop/gnome/sound", preload=GCONF_CLIENT_PRELOAD_ONELEVEL, err=0x0) at gconf-client.c:631
#5  0x00007ffff40a470c in setup_event_listener () at gnome-ui-init.c:594
#6  libgnomeui_post_args_parse (program=<optimized out>, mod_info=<optimized out>) at gnome-ui-init.c:636
#7  0x00007ffff67444ce in gnome_program_postinit (program=0x62c820) at gnome-program.c:1835
#8  0x00007ffff67448f9 in gnome_program_init_common (type=<optimized out>, app_id=0x7ffff791977c "gnucash", app_version=0x40795f "2.4.10", module_info=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, first_property_name=0x7ffff7919771 "app-prefix", 
    args=0x7fffffffd510, nparams=-1, params=0x0) at gnome-program.c:2072
#9  0x00007ffff6744b6d in gnome_program_initv (type=<optimized out>, app_id=<optimized out>, app_version=<optimized out>, module_info=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, first_property_name=0x7ffff7919771 "app-prefix", args=0x7fffffffd510)
    at gnome-program.c:2109
#10 0x00007ffff6744c6a in gnome_program_init (app_id=0x7ffff791977c "gnucash", app_version=0x40795f "2.4.10", module_info=0x7ffff42eb780, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd868, first_property_name=0x7ffff7919771 "app-prefix") at gnome-program.c:1888
#11 0x00007ffff78c30c2 in gnc_gnome_init () from /usr/lib64/gnucash/libgncmod-gnome-utils.so
#12 0x0000000000406f67 in main ()
(gdb) q
A debugging session is active.

        Inferior 1 [process 19205] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y
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