Bug#358902: /usr/bin/gconf-editor: hangs when changing option (GSlice triggered bug)

[Arthur de Jong]

Package: gconf-editor
Version: 2.12.1-2
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/gconf-editor

When changing an option in gconf-editor it either hangs with this notice:
  *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x08347430 ***
or crashes. Running gconf-editor as:
  env G_SLICE=always-malloc gconf-editor
causes gconf-editor to run as expected.

(Gustavo Franco X-Debbugs-Cc-ed as per
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/03/msg00941.html)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1-spiritus
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gconf-editor depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.14.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.14.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.10.1-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                   2.14.0-1   The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                  2.12.1-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.8.13-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.12.0-2   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters