When i start gnome a window say me that the application gnome-settings-daemon has been closed due to an unknown error. When I debug it i see: (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1217410848 (LWP 21723)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1217410848 (LWP 21723)] 0xb77a345b in g_ucs4_to_utf16 () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (gdb) bt #0 0xb77a345b in g_ucs4_to_utf16 () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #1 0xb77a376d in g_utf8_validate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #2 0x0805fd37 in bg_preferences_load () #3 0x080926a0 in ?? () #4 0x08067d40 in TC_GNOME_SettingsDaemon_struct () #5 0xbfc80824 in ?? () #6 0xbfc80824 in ?? () #7 0x00000000 in ?? () #8 0x08085288 in ?? () #9 0x080941c8 in ?? () #10 0x00000001 in ?? () #11 0x00000001 in ?? () #12 0x080574d1 in gnome_settings_background_init () #13 0x08096f18 in ?? () #14 0x08084de0 in ?? () #15 0x080926a0 in ?? () #16 0x00000001 in ?? () #17 0x08080240 in ?? () #18 0x08084de0 in ?? () #19 0x08054fb4 in gnome_settings_daemon_new () #20 0x080926a0 in ?? () #21 0x00000001 in ?? () #22 0x0807f888 in ?? () #23 0xbfc80918 in ?? () #24 0x00000000 in ?? () #25 0x0808b058 in ?? () #26 0x4d469c80 in _dl_argv_internal () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #27 0x08063a80 in acme_volume_gstreamer_get_type () #28 0x08054037 in main () It can be a glib problem. My glib version is 2.8.3 This is my emerge info mambro@terra ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-mm1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-mm1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="it" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cscope ctype cups curl dbus directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam fbcon firefox flac foomaticdb footmaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jikes joystick jpeg libg++ libwww live mad mhash mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php pic plotutils png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang sox speex spell sqlite ssl stream svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_it userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS If you need some other informetion ask me ;-) bye ps: sorry for my bad english, i'm italian :-)
The backtrace makes me think there's a broken config file, with random binary data in it. Could you try on a clean account, or temporarily move .gconf and .gnome2 out out of the way, and see if it goes away? If so, I'd like to get the offending config file so that we can pass it upstream to get the crash fixed.
I've tried to remove ~/.gnome* an ~/.gconf* but the problem it's the same.
can you still reproduce this problem?
Sorry. i can't.. i've changed pc
reporter unable to reproduce. Assuming invalid as per dang's comments.
