Anything using gnome-vfs-2.16.1 segfaults

[Tim Grondin]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 05:43 +0200, Hans Nieser wrote:
> Hans Nieser wrote:
> > Hans Nieser wrote:
> >> Installed gnome 2.16 today and found that various applications crash on
> >> startup. Others (i.e. Eye of Gnome) crash when the open-file dialog is
> >> opened. (Some backtraces at end of this message.)
> >>
> >> It seems _gtk_xdg_alias_list_lookup is called with list == NULL, this
> >> should never happen unless xdg_mime_init wasn't called by gnome-vfs first.
> >> Why this is so, is beyond me.
> >>
> >> kaeru in #freebsd-gnome on freenode said his troubles went away when he
> >> reverted to gnome-vfs-2.16.0.
> >>
> >> Some backtraces:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Ok it seems gnome-vfs-2.16.1 updated their xdgmime code, which removes
> > several xdg_mime_init() calls from various functions in xdgmime.c which
> > gnome-vfs relied upon for the initialisation of the alias_list global.
> > 
> > I don't know enough about gnome-vfs/xdgmime to come up with a patch but I
> > will file a bugreport at gnome's buzilla anyway.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359487

I am also seeing this problem. Reverting back to gnome-vfs-2.16.0 fixes
it here as well. I left a note on bugzilla about it. 

Thanks 
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