Bug#293351: gconftool-2 segfaults

[Tomas Byström]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.8.1-4

gconftool-2 segfaults at any invocation, thus making several packages
unable to be properly configured (or removed) as the .deb control scripts
fails with the segfault. I have seen this bug before in the database,
but that seemed to affect an earlier version (2.6.something) of the
gconf2 package and was fixed. However, I have not seen anything
pertaining to this version. 
I have some GNOME packages installed (base libs, gnmueric and the
like), but not the entire desktop system.
I have tried removing and reinstalling the gconf2 and libgconf2-4
package several time, without any effect.

Debian version: 3.1 (unstable)
Kernel version: 2.6.10 (compiled by hand, same problem with 2.6.5)

Versions of relevant packages which gconf2 depends on:
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libatk1.0-0    1.8.0-4        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-20   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
ii  libgconf2-4    2.8.1-4        GNOME configuration database system
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.6.1-3        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0    2.4.14-2       The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  liborbit2      2.10.2-1.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0  1.8.0-3        Layout and rendering of
ii  libpopt0       1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2        2.6.11-5       GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g         1.2.2-4        compression library - runtime

/Tomas Byström