[SOLVED] GIMP, gparted etc. shows a white dialog and crashes

Time to share my information about the case I found out today.
Today I found a little devil from my computer which was my own modified GTK+ theme (not really sure what affects there). Everytime you tried to access gimp's "change foreground dialog" box, gimp crashed and segfaulted. Tried re-installing and removing ".gimp*" folders but they didn't help at all.
The only error I got was this:
[~] gimp
(script-fu:2918): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error
zsh: segmentation fault gimp
At the same time I was reading monsterwm thread in the forums and I came across to a similiar problem but with gparted.
whooper wrote:
Monsterwm becomes unresponsive when I open gparted, go to help -> about -> credits and after a while goes back to normal. This happens with exfalso too.
http://i.imgur.com/ulrwVs.png
Sorry, didn't know that the core branch doesn't return a value on exit, it's not quitting because I launch it on a while true; do function.
It seems I fixed the problem just by changing my own modified theme to another one. Pretty odd and it doesn't make sense at all (but it does because there's something wrong with the theme). It doesn't seem to be window manager based problem because it happened on dwm and monsterwm too. The problem itself might be really rare but it does exist, hope this helps anyone experiencing similiar symptoms with applications
Last edited by Shinryuu (2012-03-26 15:38:58)

Thank you very much for the response Jason and I am sorry for the late reply but as usual life got in the way.
I ended up doing some more experimentation and I did fix the bug you pointed out. When this didn't solve the problem I started to look at other files. It turned out that my .bash_aliases file was the real culprit. The offending line was:
alias su='su -l | cd ~/' # invokes a login shell then changes to root's home directory
I fixed the issue by changing that line to read:
alias su='su -l ' # invokes a login shell then changes to root's home directory
As always thank you for the help,

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