Bug#521801: gnome-settings-daemon: crashes when I open Iceweasel in a tightvncserver Gnome session

[Billy Coutsis]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.22.2.1-2
Severity: normal

When I open Iceweasel, gnome-settings-daemon crashes. This happens irrelevant of the VNC viewer (tried latest stable UltraVNC and TightVNC from a Windows XP box, via SSH tunnel). There is no crash when I other apps (eg. gnome-terminal, gedit). 



When gnome-settings-daemon dies, I see an error dialog with the following text:

"There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, sugh as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. GNOME will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in."



Here is a snippet from ~/.xsession-errors:

** (gnome-settings-daemon:16836): WARNING **: Failed to open file '/etc/gnome/config/General.ad': No such file or directory
The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 2476 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback

** (gnome-panel:16689): WARNING **: Failed to authenticate with GDM




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                   2.22.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.20-2        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.22.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-7         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.22.0-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.22.0-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.7-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                1.6.4-7         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.1-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.76-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd0                  0.2.36-3        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4              2.22.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.6.2-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.16.6-1+lenny1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.22.3-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0              2.20.1.1-1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.20.1.1-1      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomekbd2             2.22.0-1        GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.20.1.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           1:2.22.0-5      GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-bas 0.10.19-2       GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0       0.10.19-3       Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.12.11-4       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.4-1       X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                1:2.14.13-0.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.20.5-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.14-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   2:1.0.3-2       X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0 0.9-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libxi6                   2:1.1.4-1       X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier12            3.5-2           X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                  2.6.32.dfsg-5   GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2               2:1.2.3-1       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1              1:0.9.4-2       X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxxf86misc1            1:1.0.1-3       X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio

gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.

gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages.

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