Bug#550461: gnome-control-center immediately aborts (indirectly uses libgnomeui)

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

severity 550461 serious
thanks

Roderich Schupp wrote:
> Package: gnome-control-center
> Version: 1:2.28.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> $ gnome-control-center
> GnomeUI-ERROR **: You must call gnome_program_init() before creating a GnomeApp
> aborting...
> 
> The reason is that gnome-control-center pulls in libgnomeui by way of linking to libslab
> (but doesn't initialize it). 
> Fix: rebuild control-center without using an external libslab (just omit the 
> corresponding patch and relibtoolize).

Thanks for the report. That solution is not good though, we don't want to use a
code copy. I'll look at this issue, perhaps we just need a new gnome-main-menu
(to get a new libslab).

Cheers,
Emilio

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