Freezing on Opening File Dialog in Some gtk+ Applications

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 9/6/06, Jason Lesowitz <lesowijs at jmu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Bit of a Linux newbie here.
>  I'm running Edgy

Oy, that seems like a dangerous combination. You do realise that Edgy
is the development/unstable branch, correct? Best bet is to use Dapper
(6.06) if you can. Second best is to submit bug reports on the below
and keep updating.

-Eamonn

> with all the current
> updates (except for upstart, which I'm a little afraid of installing),
> and recently, I'd say over the past 4 or 5 days, I've had problems with
> a couple of gtk+ programs (specifically Gaim and GnuCash, but I'm not
> sure how many others I've tried) locking up and needing to be manually
> killed in the send and/or open file dialogs. This happens whether I end
> up choosing a file or simply clicking cancel. I thought it might be a
> problem with Nautilus, but Nautilus by itself opens files just fine,
> and changing the default to Thunar doesn't change anything with the
> application dialogs. Curiously enough AbiWord works just fine, as does
> Epiphany.
>
> When I run GnuCash from the terminal, it's giving me this error message
> when it freezes, and nothing additional when I kill GnuCash -
>
> *** glibc detected *** gnucash: double free or corruption (out):
> 0x08788e50 ***
>
> Any help with this would be much appreciated; I haven't been able to
> find anything online that relates to something like this and I have no
> idea what that error might mean. If any more information is needed,
> I'll be happy to provide it.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jason Lesowitz
> lesowijs at jmu.edu
> (848)525-6015
>
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