Ubuntu
control-center package

Selecting the wrong theme prevents GNOME from working

Bug #71618 reported by Caleb on 2006-11-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #69977: Unable to login after gnome-theme-manager crash . Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	control-center (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I had a cursor theme installed in ~/.icons, and it showed up in my Icon themes list under System>Preferences>Theme. When I clicked it, gnome-panel crashed. I rebooted, and wasn't able to log in. I fixed it by booting into recovery mode and deleting the cursor theme that GNOME was trying to load as an icon theme.

GNOME should be more robust, and not break when a user accidentally clicks a cursor theme rather than an icon theme in the icon theme selection dialog.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-12-05:

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of control-center and Ubuntu do you use? Can you attach the icon theme to the bug? Is the panel crash reproducible? Can you probably get a backtrace for the crash?

Changed in control-center:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Caleb (caleb-marcus) wrote on 2006-12-05:

The cursor theme it crashed on Edit (733.1 KiB, application/x-tar)

I'm in Edgy, and I'm using gnome-control-center 1:2.16.1-0ubuntu4. The main problem here is that an X11 mouse cursor theme that I dragged into ~/.icons showed up in the desktop icons part of the theme manager. When I clicked it, Gnome crashed and wouldn't start until I booted into a terminal and deleted the theme folder causing the problem. I've attached the cursor theme it crashed on.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-12-06:

Looks like a duplicate of bug #69977 then