I am getting a cascade of problems on a freshly “Restored to Factory” Windows 10 pro test box.
(All post-install Windows telemetry and options declined. Firefox installed and made default. Gramps installed run… then run again several times)
The Tip of the Day continued to walk its upper left corner to the left on each re-launch of Gramps. (See [6.1b2] Dialogs that draw off-screen ) Finally, Gramps failed to re-launch with the console messages:
C:\Users\______>gramps.bat
C:\Users\______>cd C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0
C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0>gramps
2026-09-14 10:12:44.679: ERROR: grampsapp.py: line 188: Unhandled exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0\gramps\gui\grampsgui.py", line 787, in do_activate
Gramps(self.argparser, self)
~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0\gramps\gui\grampsgui.py", line 580, in __init__
from .tipofday import TipOfDay
File "C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0\gramps\gui\tipofday.py", line 59, in <module>
@Gtk.Template(filename=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "glade/tipofday.glade"))
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "AIO/gi/_gtktemplate.py", line 285, in __call__
gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-io-error-quark: Error reading from file: Bad file descriptor (0)
(gramps:10216): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:12:44.829: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
**
Gtk:ERROR:../gtk-3.24.52/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0\share\icons\Adwaita\scalable/status\image-missing.svg: Error reading from file: Bad file descriptor (g-io-error-quark, 0)
Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../gtk-3.24.52/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0\share\icons\Adwaita\scalable/status\image-missing.svg: Error reading from file: Bad file descriptor (g-io-error-quark, 0)
C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-6.1.0>
After uninstalling Gramps and deleting the Gramps User Directory in %AppData%, attempted to reinstall. But the installer complained:
In the Task Manager, discovered that GrampsAIO64-6.1.0\lib\gdbus.exe was not terminated in the crash. So killed that task and the re-install finished.