When starting gnome as root for the fist time, gmc crashes with the "normal" SEGV error message: Application "gmc" (processs 3914) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation fault) Reproduceable for me - remove .gnome and .gnome-desktop (both of them!) and have a try ...
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Beta-5
Cannot duplicate, though potentially an older problem thats been fixed.
There seem to have been some changes to GNOME since Beta 3. Working for me too in Pinstripe. Changing to Closed.