Bug#208344: Makes GTK apps completely unusable

[Adam Porter]

found 208344 2.14.0-1
tags 208344 etch
severity 208344 grave
thanks

For the past several days I have been encountering this problem.  Luckily I mostly use KDE apps, but the few GTK apps I use are very important: I store a lot of data in Newton, and I store passwords in Revelation.  Both of these are _completely unusable_ right now.  Here is all the information I have pertaining to this:

$ acp gconf2
gconf2:
  Installed: 2.14.0-1
  Candidate: 2.14.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.14.0-1 0
        650 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
        600 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ pg gconf
19822 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2

$ ls ~/.gconf
%gconf-tree.xml  apps  desktop  schemas  system
$ ls ~/.gconfd
saved_state

$ revelation
(revelation:21179): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/applet.py:4: DeprecationWarning: Module gnome.applet is deprecated; please import gnomeapplet instead
  DeprecationWarning)
/usr/bin/revelation:42: GtkWarning: locale not supported by C library
  gnome.libgnome_module_info_get(), sys.argv, []
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/revelation", line 1494, in ?
    app = Revelation()
  File "/usr/bin/revelation", line 51, in __init__
    self.__init_facilities()
  File "/usr/bin/revelation", line 72, in __init_facilities
    self.config         = config.Config()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/revelation/config.py", line 62, in __init__
    self.client.add_dir(self.basedir, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
GError: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

$ newton
(newton:21207): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/newton/NewtonMain.py:45: GtkWarning: locale not supported by C library
  gnome.program_init(NAME, VERSION)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/newton", line 6, in ?
    NewtonMain.main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/newton/NewtonMain.py", line 46, in main
    config = Configuration()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/newton/NewtonConfig.py", line 37, in __init__
    if not self.client.dir_exists(DIR_NEWTON):
gobject.GError: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

(I see the locale errors, and I have filed #363644.  I don't know if these CORBA errors are related, but I will say that, despite the locale errors when scripts run, including dpkg and other scripts, everything else on the system works perfectly.  So it seems like GConf should be able to cope as well.)

Please look into this.  I don't have any idea of how to fix it, and it's making the data in these apps (especially Revelation) inaccessible.  I'm probably going to have to ditch Revelation and just about any other GConf-using app after this works out, because I can't depend on them.  :(
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