Description of problem: audacious doesn't start on a up2date rawhide machine: $ audacious GTK Accessibility Module initialized [nothing] Doing this works: $ ssh localhost audacious The root of the problem is probably the same as discussed in Bug 227828 Comment #10 and later.
FYI, disabling accessibility features with gnome-at-properties works around the problem
Reproduced.
Hrm. audacious makes generous use of GDK_THREADS_ENTER and GDK_THREADS_LEAVE. My attempts at fixing this have just produced lockups sooner or later. Stay tuned.
Upstream has released 1.3.1, which seems to fix this problem. However, it requires a new library (mcs), which is not in FE yet. I have built a package and requested it for review, Bug 232342.
Fixed in the 1.3.1 releases