Workrave aborts at startup due to uninitialized Glib threading

[Michael Ekstrand]

Binary package hint: workrave

Workrave does not start due to the unitialized threading system. This makes it entirely inoperable against a modern GLib (e.g. in Karmic).

This has been reported and fixed upstream (http://issues.workrave.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=856), but no new release has been made. Including the patch attached to that bug in the package should fix it for Ubuntu users.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 9 20:05:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: workrave 1.9.0-7ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: workrave
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.