Description of problem: gnome-control-center constantly crashes when trying to start Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.16.0-11.fc6 How reproducible: Starting gnome-control-ceneter from either the command line or GNOME will always result in a crash. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start gnome-control-center from either the command line in a terminal or from GNOME's "Run" facility 2. 3. Actual results: gnome-control-center crashes with a segmentation fault Expected results: gnome-control-center should start and run normally Additional info: Bug buddy didn't create a bug report file, I have attached output from strace. This segfault happens with all users, including root
Created attachment 145548 [details] Strace output from running gnome-control-center
Could you please gather a backtrace with the control-center-debuginfo, glib2-debuginfo and gtk2-debuginfo packages installed? Some instructions are available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
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