Note: The memory locations in the previous message and in strace_yelp.txt are not the same (I think they correspond to different runs, sorry for that). Significant lines in strace_yelp.txt, corresponding to given messages are: Line 1481 ("(yelp:11297): Gtk-CRITICAL ** ...." ) Line 6858 ("I/O warning : failed to...") Just in case it helps.