Comment 85 for bug 213494

Hi there,

I'm running Jaunty and are (since Hardy) experiencing the same problems.

I followed this thread which I only found today (luckily).

I spent some two hours to dig a little into the problem and found that its got to do (as others above pointed out already) with some little gnome inside the code ;)

I first suspected gobject.threads_init() as other resources pointed out, that time and order of calls matter in PyGTK.

Then, as a first step, I added logging to see how far Glipper would fare:

It is merely starting up before it crashes.

Being intrigued by this and by the fact that it really only happens at boot time, I started to write this patch (see attachment).

For now after the first successful (re-)boot (done a far few by now) test, Glipper *did not* crash with this code in place!

I'd be really curious whether it'll help others, so please give it a try!

Best regards,

Udo