gnome-appearance-properties using 100% cpu

[mono1984]

Opening appearance dialog (system-preferences-appearance) and gnome-appearance-properties went to 98% - 100% cpu usage and remained there until manually killing the proccess. Repeated the action to be sure it was that and happend every time, except one but circunstances where the same. Closing the dialog doesn't solve it.

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

gnome-control-center:
  Instalados: 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidato: 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

There are two gnome-appearance-properties processes; one hogging the cpu and the second sleeping. Closing the window leaves the hogging one behind (won't end it).

First two times that i opened the appearance dialog, some themes won't show a preview also. After several theme switching to check if they worked this stoped happening (for this time at least).

Launching gnome-appearance-properties from a terminal outputs this:

(gnome-appearance-properties:12149): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_display_sync: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed

(gnome-appearance-properties:12149): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_display_sync: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkWidget::visited-link-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1a59da0)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkWidget::visited-link-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x218d020)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkWidget::visited-link-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1ebd520)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkWidget::visited-link-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1e9f840)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkWidget::visited-link-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1f4dc20)" of type `GString'

I've found the solution on Bug #147045 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/147045 on comment #15

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.56-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 20 19:41:51 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_UY:en
 LANG=es_UY.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[mono1984 (jcereijo)]

Content of .gtkrc-2.0

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

include "/home/julio/.gtkrc.mine"

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT

Renaming the file stopped the situation from happening so i erased it for good. :-D

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that utility is deprecated in GNOME3 and Oneiric so closing the bug, it doesn't seem a bug which will be fixed in a stable update since there was very low demand for it