Bug 553926

Summary: Empathy, Nautilus and other Gtk based apps fail to start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bernhard Schuster <redhat.bugzilla>
Component: gtk2Assignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: beland, mclasen, pertusus, rdieter
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Description Bernhard Schuster 2010-01-09 15:11:29 UTC 
Description of problem:
Empathy fails to start, aswell as nautilus
The Nautilus Desktop (the area you see when no windows coverthe screen) only shows the Backgroundimage, no icons nor files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

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Expected results:

Starting application

Additional info:

empathy console output:

Warning: Unable to create "trees" RDF storage.
Performance can be improved by upgrading librdf.

(plugin-scanner:2241): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GstBaseVideoCodec'

(plugin-scanner:2241): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

(plugin-scanner:2241): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_register_static: assertion `parent_type > 0' failed

(plugin-scanner:2241): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

(plugin-scanner:2241): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_register_static: assertion `parent_type > 0' failed

(plugin-scanner:2241): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

(plugin-scanner:2241): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion `g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed
Comment 1 Christopher Beland 2010-01-17 19:35:27 UTC 
What version of gtk2 are you seeing this with?  I am seeing it neither with gtk2-2.18.6-1.fc12.i686 nor gtk2-2.18.6-2.fc12.i686.  Does this happen for a newly-created user?  (I'm wondering if there's some user-specific state in your dotfiles that is triggering the problem.)
Comment 2 Bernhard Schuster 2010-01-18 00:57:43 UTC 
this turned out to be a duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 540198 ***