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On 6/1/2012 7:00 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> I found an XP system that hadn't been upgraded in a few weeks, and I
> upgraded libglib2.0_0 but nothing else. This was enough to trigger the
> problem.

I've checked the git repository for glib at

   http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/log/?h=glib-2-32

and there were very few changes between 2.32.2 and 2.32.3.  The only one 
that looks to me like it could have anything to do with our problem is 
the 2012-05-14 change to GConverterInputStream.  The change appears to 
be a pretty obvious bug fix, but I can imagine a scenario in which 
fixing the bug would result in the symptoms we're seeing.

I'm not going to speculate further until I can get access to an XP 
system to do some testing.  Or maybe someone who uses XP regularly will 
beat me to it.

Ken

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