Bug#435005: closed by Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> (Close 435005)

[Ondřej Válek]

Here' something more that I have found:

This is what bug-buddy (with gnome-dbg packages installed) says:

System: Linux 2.6.21.5 #2 PREEMPT Wed Aug 8 17:25:13 CEST 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: Permissive
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: Tango

Memory status: size: 39137280 vsize: 39137280 resident: 21581824 share:
13660160 rss: 21581824 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1190323044 rtime: 52 utime: 43 stime: 9 cutime:0
cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-background-properties'

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225417968 (LWP 4358)]
0xb77c1bce in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#0  0xb77c1bce in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1  0xb7d9c865 in libgnomeui_segv_handle (signum=11) at gnome-ui-init.c:872
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0xb781722e in g_slice_alloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0xb781c7d3 in g_string_sized_new () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb781c845 in g_string_new () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb77ec543 in g_file_error_from_errno () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7  0xb77ec7d0 in g_build_filename () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0x08051911 in gnome_wp_xml_load_list ()
#9  0x0804def9 in main ()

Thread 1 (Thread -1225417968 (LWP 4358)):
#0  0xb77c1bce in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#1  0xb7d9c865 in libgnomeui_segv_handle (signum=11) at gnome-ui-init.c:872
    estatus = -1079239464
    sa = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0, sa_sigaction = 0},
  sa_mask = {__val = {3086146784, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3086209596, 3215727680,
      3215727956, 3860694031, 70, 3077018588, 3079621296, 3084792979,
      226034278, 3086225396, 3084764468, 3086105344, 3215727744,
3086164451,
      3086105784, 3069555768, 1, 1, 0, 3084793039, 87, 3084738560,
      3085339143, 3085903448, 3085339008, 3215727832, 3084884560}},
  sa_flags = -1209628215,
  sa_restorer = 0xb7ef0ba0 <xmlIsIdeographicGroup+584>}
    pid = 0
    in_segv = 1
#2  <signal handler called>
No symbol table info available.
#3  0xb781722e in g_slice_alloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#4  0xb781c7d3 in g_string_sized_new () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#5  0xb781c845 in g_string_new () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#6  0xb77ec543 in g_file_error_from_errno () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#7  0xb77ec7d0 in g_build_filename () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#8  0x08051911 in gnome_wp_xml_load_list ()
No symbol table info available.
#9  0x0804def9 in main ()
No symbol table info available.
#0  0xb77c1bce in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0


----------- .xsession-errors (6 sec old) ---------------------
(xfce4-menu-plugin:2994): libxfce4util-WARNING **: Could not get
contents of file /home/ondra/.local/share/applications//googleearth.desktop
Window Title: 'Desktop Background Preferences'; Application Name:
'gnome-background-properties'; Class: 'Gnome-background-properties';
Geometry: 360x418+336+199
(gnome-background-properties:4358): background-properties-WARNING **:
Unknown Tag: comment
I/O error : Is a directory
//usr/share/gnome-background-properties:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
//usr/share/gnome-background-properties:1: parser error : Start tag
expected, '<' not found
^
I/O error : Is a directory
Window Title: 'Bug Buddy'; Application Name: 'Bug Buddy'; Class:
'Bug-buddy'; Geometry: 504x208+264+304
--------------------------------------------------

And I have finally found the cause of the problem:
/usr/share/gnome-background-properties is a directory. When I delete it,
everything works again (except for there are no system-wide wallpapers
anymore)
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