Unable to login after gnome-theme-manager crash

About my system:
I had an installation of Dapper, so I did a dist-upgrade to change to Edgy Eft. But to avoid dist-upgrade problems, I only saved my /home partition and did a clean install of Edgy Eft, then mounting my /home partition which was previously upgraded from Dapper to Edgy.

Hardware:
MSI K9N NEO-F (nForce 550)
Gainward GeForce 7600GT
1024 MB RAM

After a "mv .gconf .gconf.old" I was able to log in to my user account, but all of my settings are gone... So I did a
"diff -r .gconf .gconf.old > diff.txt"
and the diff.txt file is attached here, if anyone would like to take a look at it and find the files / differences between my not working files (.gconf.old) and my default edgy working files (.gconf).

If you have a solution I would be very grateful to know about it so I can get my old settings back without going through everything again...

Thanks for your bug report. Can you get a backtrace of the crash? (What the bug-buddy dialog showed you)? What I noticed in the diff is: /home/dan-erik/.themes/ubuntured.dan-erik.com/panel.png as the background colour of the panel. Can you attach the theme to the bug repot too?

This attachment is the theme. The bug-buddy did not appear as I could see... There were two windows visible, but they were both reduced to the size of the (X) button (close) and without content when I resized them to normal size.

Can you try to move .gconf back and change the one occurence of your theme? Can you try get a backtrace of gnome-theme-manager when trying to switch back? (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace)

I moved back .gconf, then:

1) edited out the occurence of my theme. tried gdm login. system halt.

2) "mv panel/toplevel panel/toplevel.old". tried gdm login. system halt.

3) "mv panel panel.old". tried gdm login. system halt.

Tried the backtrace you suggested. Gtk-Warning since I am running from Ctrl-Alt-F1 terminal so it cannot open display (x server I reckon), program termination. (I am not used to working in a non-GUI environment, but I am trying my best to provide info).

Given the above outcome, I would not think that it is the panel directory or any of the contents therein (such as the reference to my theme) which is at fault.

Aaaah, I finally figured it out by moving/renaming directories one-by-one I found my way to ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/ where there was a file using the icons I had chosen last. Contents of this file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="icon_theme" mtime="1162583279" type="string">
                <stringvalue>Chameleon-Anthracite-Regular-0.5</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="gtk_theme" mtime="1162507003" type="string">
                <stringvalue>ubuntured.dan-erik.com</stringvalue>
        </entry>
</gconf>

As it turns out.... Chameleon-Anthracite-Regular-0.5 is a mouse cursor theme located in the .icons folder, it is not an icon theme. I remember having a lot of difficulties finding a way to change mouse cursor themes in Dapper, but I don't think they turned up in the theme manager as icon sets.

Now it is very easy to recreate the crash: Just choose the mouse cursor theme as an icon theme and everything will go down. I am attaching a tar.gz of the theme that caused me all of these problems. Just extract it in the ~/.icons/ folder....

Using "Low" importance because it's an user error which is a corner case. I've forwarded it upstream to GTK: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381236

fixed upstream

Fixed with this upload:

 gtk+2.0 (2.10.7-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     * GtkNotebook
       - Tab reordering is a less intrusive
       - Rendering fixes on win32
     * GtkTreeView
       - Column resizing works correctly in right-to-left languages
       - Many scrolling bugs have been fixed
     * GtkTextView:
       - Improved scrolling during DND.
     * GtkRecentManager is more robust against bad URIs
     * Print support:
       - The cups backend works with 'BrowseShortNames Off'
         in the cups configuration
       - Multi-valued options are properly passed to cups
       - Fix build with cups 1.3
       - A few IPP compliance issues have been fixed
       - Make the lpr backend work on BSD
     * Input methods:
       - GtkEntryCompletion works with input methods
       - The Thai input method has been replace by a functional
         Thai and Lao input method based on libthai
     * Accessibility support:
       - GtkMessageDialog sets accessible name role explicitly
     * Theme support:
       - The semantics of the gtk-color-scheme setting has been
         slightly changed. Values from rc files are still merged
         together, but the X setting just overrides the prior table.
     * GdkPixbuf:
       - gdk_pixbuf_loader_write() now closes the loader when
         returning FALSE, as documented
       - The BMP loader supports more BMP variants, including
         transparency and 10-bit channels.
     * Bugs fixed:
       - 122688 modal dialog popup + drag in progress = mouse freeze
         (Ubuntu: #58575)
       - 315732 gnome-session crash on login
       - 335622 Click Description field causes Evolution to crash.
       - 357050 Crash replacing \n\n with \n or undoing after paste
       - 359537 printing custom page
       - 373466 crash in Text Editor:
       - 388041 crash in Open Folder: nada
       - 390873 crash in Text Editor: I had just opened it up ...
       - 367529 gtk_combo_box_set_model(combo, NULL) generates warning wh...
       - 381499 xdgmime requires getc_unlocked, darwin 6 lacks
       - 349119 GtkUIManager crashes on wrong action names in an XML file
       - 363437 gnome-panel crash to gtkrecentmanager code (Ubuntu: #66189)
       - 366782 GtkTreeView "expand_all" can crash if a node's children a...
       - 374378 Crash as GTK tries to blink cursor in defocused spinbutto...
       - 381236 apps crash when using a mouse cursor theme as icon theme
         (Ubuntu: #69977)
       - 320465 gtk_window_parse_geometry is almost completely broken
       - 355350 Page Setup, Range and Copy information ignored
       - 387170 Fairly large leak in gtk+
       - 390159 printing with BSD lpr does not work properly
       - 64998 GtkEntry - gtk_entry_set_text emits "changed" twice
       - 92387 unfriendly drag-n-drop in textview - scrolls too fast
         (Ubuntu: #58345)
       - 172188 io-bmp.c should sanity check the size given by the OffBit...
       - 304482 GtkComboBoxEntry editable entry should be centered vertic...
       - 315440 Problem with gtkpaned inside gtknotebook(mouse wheel over...
       ...

Sebastien: Are there any plans for an SRU?

No, SRU require work, on that bug is happening only when somebody installed a buggus theme, which is not a standard situation

I have the same problem. Can't login right now.

I did also save the /home partiion when upgrading.

THAT uncommon isn't that so this should be fixed.

And for my, moving away .gconf does not the solve the issue.

HELP!

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Fredrik Sjögren wrote:
> I have the same problem. Can't login right now.
>
> I did also save the /home partiion when upgrading.
>
> THAT uncommon isn't that so this should be fixed.
>

Please, do not mail me directly. For any question about Xfce, use the
mailing lists.

Regards,
Olivier.
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Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Fredrik Sjögren wrote:
>> I have the same problem. Can't login right now.
>
>> I did also save the /home partiion when upgrading.
>
>> THAT uncommon isn't that so this should be fixed.

Woops, I misunderstood, all my apologies, did not see it was from
launchpad :(
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Hi, Olivier,

I didn't e-mail you. I'm not Fredrik. I'm not at all sure how my e-mail address got mixed up in all of this. I am having no problems at all with Xfce right now.

I understand your issue but you've complained to the wrong person.

-Caitlyn

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> Subject: Re: [Bug 69977] Re: Unable to login after gnome-theme-manager
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> From: Olivier Fourdan <email address hidden>
> Date: Sun, May 13, 2007 3:09 pm
> To: <email address hidden>
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> Fredrik Sj�gren wrote:
> > I have the same problem. Can't login right now.
> >
> > I did also save the /home partiion when upgrading.
> >
> > THAT uncommon isn't that so this should be fixed.
> >
>
> Please, do not mail me directly. For any question about Xfce, use the
> mailing lists.
>
> Regards,
> Olivier.
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