Bug#282394: mahjongg: changing tile theme from default to smooth.png hangs the app

[Andreas Ehn]

Package: gnome-games
Version: 1:2.8.1-2
Severity: normal

In GNOME Mahjongg 2.8.1 that just entered unstable, when you change
the tile set theme from the default (postmodern.svg) to smooth.png,
the application hangs. In fact, not only the application, but major
parts of the GNOME system seems to be affected. It is neither possible
to switch to other applications or workspaces, nor to use gnome-panel.

If you change to another virtual console, it is possible to kill the
mahjongg process. This renders the desktop usable again. However, if
mahjongg is restarted from gnome-panel, the application does not
start, and gnome-panel hangs. If gnome-panel is killed, it is not
possible to restart it (e.g. from a terminal window).

Maybe this is an indication of a more serious bug in some GNOME
system, but mahjongg is where I have noticed it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnome-games depends on:
ii  gnome-games-data          1:2.8.1-2      data files for the GNOME games
ii  guile-1.6-libs            1.6.4-4        Main Guile libraries
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.8.0-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.8.0-3        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.8.0-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.2-1        A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3                 0.6.0-2        a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libesd0                   0.2.35-2       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.2-3      GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.8.1-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.0-10       LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.4.0-2        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.8.0-2        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.8.0-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.8.0-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.8.3-2        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11               1.0.16-12      GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             1.0-1          library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1                  1.10.1-1       Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libguile-ltdl-1           1.6.4-4        Guile's patched version of libtool
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.6.0-2        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libqthreads-12            1.6.4-4        QuickThreads library for Guile
ii  librsvg2-2                2.8.1-1        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.5-2      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.10-4       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-5       GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-3      compression library - runtime

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