Bug#638817: gnome-settings-daemon crashes on startup, errors on libnotify

[José Alejandro Carrillo Neira]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.30.2-4
Severity: critical
Tags: wheezy
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Earlier today I rebooted my Debian system after a few updates, and I'm greeted
with no themes. A quick digging turns up that gnome-settings-daemon is crashing
due to libnotify erroring.

This is the message I get when I manually run it from a console:

erkurita at erkurro:~$ gnome-settings-daemon

(gnome-settings-daemon:6065): libnotify-WARNING **: you must call notify_init()
before showing
**
libnotify:ERROR:notification.c:568:notify_notification_show: code should not be
reached



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.32.4-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                         2.13-16    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                     1.10.2-6.1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.4.14-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.94-4     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-3    generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.32.4-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.23.5-3   GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17         2.30.2-2   Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-common              2.32.1-1   The GNOME library - common files
ii  libgnomekbd4                  2.30.2-2   GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.35-1  GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0            0.10.35-1  Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.4-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify4                    0.7.3-2    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.4-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                        2:1.4.3-3  X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier16                 5.1-2      X Keyboard Extension high-level AP

gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver             2.30.0-3   GNOME screen saver and locker
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]   1:2.30.1-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]     3.0.2.1-2  lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.6+3      X server utilities

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