Re: Bug#458336: upgrade-reports: XFCE refuses to initialize GTK+, restarts X

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 02:45:10PM +0100, Maciej Habant wrote:
> After the last update which included sudo and after a reboot XFCE
> restarts X just after logging in with an error saying "Refusing to
> initialize GTK+" and "(xfdesktop:5431): CRITICAL **:
> settings_register_callback: assertion `cb && user_data && mcs_client'
> failed". However, I can login succesfully with a freshly-created user. I
> tried different chmods on .gnome and .gnome2 directories, no effect.
> Even if I ignore the box and don't click anything, XFCE renders almost
> every function unusable.

I had the same problem, and disabling my sourced ".aliases" solved the problem. Try disabling all your profiles (I'm using bash).

However the above error is still present in my .xsession-errors

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