XFCE 17.2 Appearance window crashes

[Fritx]

numix themes and numix icons (numix, numix circle, numix bevel) installed.

Numix circle crashes here, numix theme and the icon-themes numix and numix bevel work fine,
also the geybird theme (shimmer theme) and the gnome-brave-icon-theme.

I really like the MintArtwork and with a nice dark panel (with light fonts) for Xfce I probably would not use other themes.

[tempus13]

Similar issue here. I upgraded to 17.2 and now the appearance window crashes after a few seconds. If I use the xfce4-appearance-settings command at the terminal I get the following:

(xfce4-appearance-settings:16464): GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.2/./glib/gmem.c:103: failed to allocate 364492 bytes
Trace/breakpoint trap


I am not sure where to go next on this one.

Thanks.

[BigEasy]

I never deleted any icon sets. Just changed to another. For me crashes was when Gnome icons was active.

[ravirexrules]

Hi!

I am new to this. Just installed xfce 17.2, and my appearance dialog disappears after staying open for about 3 seconds. Can you please help? It was working fine yesterday and changed themes, icons, etc. Today I just added ambience and raidance themes for xfce and icons and the problem seems to happen. Any help is good, thanks!

[karlchen]

Hello, ravirexrules.

Sorry to say so, but I cannot offer any help. Yet, I can confirm that this seems to be a general problem introduced by xfce 4.12 on Ubuntu 14.04 / Mint 17.2. I can reproduce it here reliably.

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karl@unimatrix0 ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/xfce4-appearance-settings
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63344 Mar  3  2015 /usr/bin/xfce4-appearance-settings
karl@unimatrix0 ~ $ 
$  xfce4-appearance-settings --version
xfce4-appearance-settings 4.12.0 (Xfce 4.12)
karl@unimatrix0 ~ $ 
karl@unimatrix0 ~ $ xfce4-appearance-settings 
GLib: Cannot convert message: Could not open converter from 'UTF-8' to 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'

(xfce4-appearance-settings:6219): GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.2/./glib/gmem.c:133: failed to allocate 2048 bytes
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
karl@unimatrix0 ~ $ 

Related thread in this forum, but no solution found:
XFCE 17.2 Appearance window crashes

Relevant Launchpad bug report, but incorrectly estimated as happening only "occasionally":
Bug 1458678: xfce appearance settings windows crashes occasionally
Added a comment in Launchpad, confirming it is a bug, plus pointing to this thread to support more users are affected.

Cheers,
Karl
--
P.S.:
If you do not mind, I will add this thread to the mentioned thread about the same problem:
XFCE 17.2 Appearance window crashes
Thus we would have everything which has been reported about the problem so far in a single thread.

[draghan]

This is my first post on this forum, so I should say "hello" to everyone. So... Hello.

I've got the same problem with appearance window. I've noticed that when I run in terminal

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sudo xfce4-appearance-settings

window don't disappear and I can make changes of themes, icons and other stuff - changes are visible after re-login.

I've also noticed, when I change icons and theme to defaults, I could run appearance window from settings panel as usual and I could normally change themes and when I clicked 'icons' tab then window crashed - but this could be only an coincidence.

I'm hope this could help somebody.

Best regards, draghan.

[modele62]

Up...

hello everyone,

I just upgraded my notebook to Linux Mint 17.3 XFCE and everything worked fine with the appearance-settings function until i installed a new theme (light-themes, from the software manager):

(xfce4-appearance-settings:3345): GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.2/./glib/gmem.c:133: failed to allocate...

First i uninstalled this new theme but xfce4-appearance-settings still crashed after a few seconds, even without any interaction.

Then i restarted the XFCE session (logout/login) and launched xfce4-appearance-settings which crashed again but with a different error message:

xfce4-appearance-settings
GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error from C library during 'malloc': Cannot allocate memory. Aborting.
Aborted

Same error after a reboot.

Considering the previous post dates back to several months, i'm afraid the bug hasn't been corrected yet ?

[karlchen]

Sad, but true, the last update in the Launchpad bug report mentioned a few posts above, xfce appearance settings windows crashes occasionally, reads:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
Changed in moka-icon-theme (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed

To me this suggests that so far no-one has started looking into and working on this bug, yet.

[modele62]

Only known workaround: reduce the number of installed icon themes. Since the upgrade to xfce 4.12 also installed ~12 new icon themes not present in xfce 4.10, (re)moving an equal number of unused icon themes (from /usr/share/icons) to a backup folder (ie /usr/share/icons-bkup) might just do the trick for you (it did for me, anyway) ...

Hi,
Thank you for the tip but it doesn't seem to work on my machine
Did you remove icons only ? Or themes too ?

[karlchen]

Hi, modele62.
Icon themes. Each subfolder in the folder /usr/share/icons holds one icon theme.
Karl