memory warning about g_thread_init [was Re: no gnome user sessions after 20070618 changes]

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:20:27 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:00:12PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > Am I the only one with this problem?  Any ideas what may be
> > falling apart.  '.xsession-errors' files are filling up with
> > warnings like that:
> 
> Me too. Things have been Kinda Br0ke for a couple of weeks, in fact.
> 
> 
> > ***MEMORY-WARNING***: gnome-session[3348]: GSlice: g_thread_init()
> > must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption
> > due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this
> > program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...
> [...]
> > but this breakage is nothing new in the current rawhide.
> 
> 
> The only mailing list reference I find is
> 
> <http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2007-June/msg00489.html>
> 
> but we're now at 2.11.4 and things seem worse rather than better.
> 
> Then, there's half-a-dozen bugs in bugzilla, the most generic of which
> appears to be:
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241925>.
> 
> 
> Anyone know more of what's going on?

Here's some background:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-January/msg00005.html