From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 Description of problem: When configured to pull images from a directory xscreensaver produces the following error and uses simple a checkerboard pattern instead of an image: (process:12699): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:1806: initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function (process:12699): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 585 (g_object_new): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xscreensaver-4.05-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set xscreensaver to choos random images from some directory 2. preview or otherwise activate screensaver Actual Results: checkerboard patter with described errors Expected Results: should use some random image from selected directory Additional info: This worked just fine with the ximian package before RH upgrade. (no Ximian packages left on machine). My girlfriend is highly displeased.
This bug is a duplicate of bug #76561 (can someone with authorty mark this bug accordingly). According to that (and for me) this is fixed in rawhide.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76561 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.