Bug#265396: gnome-control-center: Preferred Applications (gnome-default-applications-properties) crashes on startup

[Ian McKellar]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.6.1-11
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Starting gnome-default-application-properties on the commandline causes
an immediate crash. Starting it from the foot menu brings up the crash
reporting dialog. Interestingly I have this same package version
installed on a different machine but it doesn't crash at all. It has
older libraries though - I haven't upgraded it for a couple of days. I'm
not sure how to track down more closely which particular dependancy is
triggering this crash though.

The stack trace is pretty unexciting:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1087828224 (LWP 6493)]
0x0804d2ba in _start ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x0804d2ba in _start ()
#1  0x080ae7c8 in ?? ()
#2  0x08053dc0 in _IO_stdin_used ()
#3  0xbffff8c8 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#5  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#9  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#10 0x080d0da0 in ?? ()
#11 0xbffff908 in ?? ()
#12 0x0804e1f8 in _start ()
#13 0x080ae7c8 in ?? ()
#14 0x080d0da0 in ?? ()
#15 0x0804c810 in _start ()
#16 0x08116be8 in ?? ()
#17 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#18 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#19 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#20 0x40c88edc in ?? () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#21 0x40c8a1b0 in timezone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#22 0xbffff950 in ?? ()
#23 0xbffff938 in ?? ()
#24 0x0804e938 in main ()


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7x40
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  capplets                  1:2.6.1-11     configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-5        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.3-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.5-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.6.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-4      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-6      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.7-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

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