F10 - Preferred Applications

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 20:23:33 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:21:22 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 05:47:58PM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Preferred Applications
> >>
> >> (/usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties)
> >>
> >> does nothing in F10.  I just realized that today, therefore I do not
> >> know what caused the problem. This command is part of
> >> control-center-2.24.0.1-12.fc10.x86_64
> >>
> >> Is this another known issue of gnome 2.24?
> >
> > The Preferred Applications tool works fine on my F10 box; I just checked
> > it by changing a couple defaults and using my assigned hotkeys.
>
>         I just tried it -- and it crashed. Twice.
>
>        I had gotten into the preferences for Pan 0.133, which was not
> emailing me posts I told it to, and copied that into a post to the Pan-
> list; thought it would be a good idea also to show exactly what my Fedora/
> Gnome preference showed -- and got the crash.
>
>        Closed my Pan preferences, just in case, and tried again. Got the
> same popup from bug buddy as before.
>
>        Dunno whether Pan was really involved at all; but I do know I
> just did another yum update earlier today.
>
>
It works for me when I login as a different user or use sudo.
But I have no idea why it is failing when I login as myself.
In my case, I have no indication.

gdb just gives me:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000004067f9 in gtk_grab_add ()

but I did not install the debug package yet.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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