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 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: 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
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.)
this turned out to be a duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 540198 ***