in F12 alpha 1, launching gnome-appearance-properties, either from the command line or when right-clicking and selecting 'Change Desktop Background', terminates in a segfault after a couple of seconds. This happens every time. the cause and bt is: Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 gnome_bg_set_color (bg=0x9337f80, type=GNOME_BG_COLOR_SOLID, primary=0x0, secondary=0x0) at gnome-bg.c:511 511 bg->primary = *primary; (gdb) bt #0 gnome_bg_set_color (bg=0x9337f80, type=GNOME_BG_COLOR_SOLID, primary=0x0, secondary=0x0) at gnome-bg.c:511 #1 0x0805fcfe in set_bg_properties (item=0x9492470) at gnome-wp-item.c:73 #2 0x080603c6 in gnome_wp_item_new (filename=0x8070ac2 "(none)", wallpapers=0x91796f0, thumbnails=0x9120140) at gnome-wp-item.c:143 #3 0x080560ea in wp_load_stuffs (user_data=0x90fdc80) at appearance-desktop.c:946 #4 0x00a19292 in g_idle_dispatch (source=0x921ef50, callback=0, user_data=0x90fdc80) at gmain.c:4065 #5 0x00a1b0a8 in g_main_dispatch (context=<value optimized out>) at gmain.c:1960 #6 IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=<value optimized out>) at gmain.c:2513 #7 0x00a1e9d8 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x905fd08, block=<value optimized out>, dispatch=1, self=0x90340f8) at gmain.c:2591 #8 0x00a1ee4f in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x9037608) at gmain.c:2799 #9 0x032f6dd9 in IA__gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:1205 #10 0x080594a9 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf9e4fd4) at appearance-main.c:210 I have a couple of core files, but they're 33m and I'm at home, so let me know if anyone needs them.
Jon, did you have a fix for this ?
Experiencing same thing with updated rawhide as of yesterday.
I can confirm the same issue after installing Fedora 12 Alpha from LiveCD. Update from 20090828 did not fix. $ gnome-appearance-properties calling CanSetSystem: 1 (gnome-appearance-properties:8637): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_color_equal: assertion `colorb != NULL' failed
Cab you get me a stacktrace ? I'm not reproducing this here...
I suspect that people who are still seeing this problem simply do not have the fixed version of control-center yet. Today's Rawhide still has only 2.27.91-2. I downloaded -4 from Koji and it fixed the bug here.
updated to -4 and the problem is fixed. Thanks.