Re: 2.5 crashing in gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file()

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net> writes:

> I finally built GNOME 2.5 with jhbuild [1] but gnome-session crashes
> during login. In "jhbuild shell", I found that almost everything crashes
> in gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data(), called by gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(). I
> can't get any of the GTK+ demos or examples to crash though. Does anyone
> have an idea?

It appears to be an AVI loader from gst-plugins that's crashing it.  As
a quick fix, you can remove the loader at:

$PREFIX/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/loaders/gst_loader.*  

You'll also have to run

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > $SYSCONFDIR/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

Thanks,
-Jonathan