I have the same problem. There You have output of gdp gwoffice: @local:~$ gdb gwoffice GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2) 7.4-2012.04 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: ... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gwoffice...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/gwoffice [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". [New Thread 0x7fffe370e700 (LWP 9002)] [New Thread 0x7fffe1e9c700 (LWP 9003)] [INFO 22:19:33.667717] [Application:74] GWoffice version: 0.1 [INFO 22:19:33.667803] [Application:76] Kernel version: 3.2.0-26-generic [New Thread 0x7fffe0c39700 (LWP 9004)] [FATAL 22:19:33.841652] ___lambda51_: assertion `auth != NULL' failed [FATAL 22:19:33.841713] GWoffice will not function properly. [New Thread 0x7fffd3dfa700 (LWP 9006)] [DEBUG 22:19:33.845189] [Gtk] Connecting to session manager [DEBUG 22:19:33.862180] [GWoffice:728] Application activated [DEBUG 22:19:33.869551] [Settings:155] Loading settings from schema 'org.gnome.gwoffice' [New Thread 0x7fffcbfff700 (LWP 9007)] [New Thread 0x7fff8b7fc700 (LWP 9008)] [INFO 22:19:35.575210] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2012-07-03T19:53:22.220Z [INFO 22:19:35.575468] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.576258] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2012-07-03T13:41:22.743Z [INFO 22:19:35.576589] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.577603] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 2012-06-28T09:29:33.227Z [INFO 22:19:35.577960] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 2012-06-28T09:22:08.688Z [INFO 22:19:35.578256] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.579244] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 2012-06-07T10:26:21.101Z [INFO 22:19:35.579506] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 2012-06-06T12:43:52.717Z [INFO 22:19:35.579796] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.580618] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2012-06-13T10:19:36.667Z [INFO 22:19:35.580922] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.581989] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.582886] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2012-06-01T14:24:07.944Z [INFO 22:19:35.583240] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2012-06-01T14:05:09.924Z [INFO 22:19:35.583531] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.584647] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2011-12-15T14:29:51.520Z [INFO 22:19:35.584915] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2011-08-23T13:38:09.416Z [INFO 22:19:35.585222] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.586231] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.587266] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.588114] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2011-11-14T17:13:58.632Z [INFO 22:19:35.588397] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.589399] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.590406] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 2011-08-15T10:24:53.746Z [INFO 22:19:35.590657] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.591576] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.592483] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.593720] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.594673] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.595751] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsPresentation: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.596697] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.597689] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.598765] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.599311] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.599642] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.599954] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsSpreadsheet: 0 [INFO 22:19:35.600258] [libgdata] Unhandled XML in GDataDocumentsText: 0 [Thread 0x7fffe0c39700 (LWP 9004) exited] [Thread 0x7fffd3dfa700 (LWP 9006) exited]