Bug#362895: libgtk2.0-0: complete loss of desktop, nautilus

[Richard Burton]

Package: libgtk2.0-0
Version: 2.8.17-1
Severity: important

Installed latest gtk packages in unstable, resulted in immediate loss of 
desktop. Lost all icons from desktop, but background image remained. After 
logging out and back in again plain grey desktop, no icons or background 
image. Right clicking on desktop gives no response.

Nautilus will no longer start, just hangs, or perhaps it is running but 
never manages to draw to the screen? Strace shows it stopped at this, maybe 
that's normal waiting for something to happen, can collect a full trace if 
that helps. I suspect the desktop is also hung in a similar way.

Richard.

stat64("/home/raburton/Desktop", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) 
= 0
access("/home/raburton/Desktop", F_OK)  = 0
stat64("/home/raburton/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals", 0xafa8ad4c) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/raburton/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
time(NULL)                              = 1145182606
stat64("/usr/share/config/kdeglobals", 0xafa8ad4c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory)
open("/usr/share/config/kdeglobals", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
time(NULL)                              = 1145182606
writev(21, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\0\24\3\0\0", 12}, 
{"\360\254\250\257\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\0\0\0\0F\366"..., 788}], 2) = 
800
futex(0x8116cfc, FUTEX_WAIT, 11, NULL)  = 0
futex(0x8116cf8, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)   = 0
futex(0x8116cf8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 0
futex(0x8116cd8, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)   = 0
futex(0x8116cd8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 0
writev(21, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\0\332\2\0\0", 12}, 
{"\240\254\250\257\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\0\0\0\0F\366"..., 730}], 2) = 
742
futex(0x8116bd8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 1
futex(0x8116cfc, FUTEX_WAIT, 13, NULL