i ran into the same problems. after deleting everything but "Human" in /usr/share/themes it worked again. what i have in /usr/share/themes:
ls /usr/share/themes/ AgingGorilla Crux Gray Human LowContrast Outdoors Silicon Atlanta Default HighContrast Industrial LowContrastLargePrint Qt Simple Bright Emacs HighContrastInverse IndustrialTango Metabox Raleigh ThinIce Clearlooks Esco HighContrastLargePrint LargePrint metacity-1 Redmond ClearlooksAlternative Glider HighContrastLargePrintInverse LegacyHuman Mist Resilience my girlfriend has an account on this machine, that was not affected from that problem, so it must have something to do with my personal themes, which are: 6nome Aero Almond Alphacube AluminumAlloy-Smog ben ben010 ben011 ben012 ben013 ben014 ben04 ben05 ben06 ben07 ben08 ben09 ben14 ben15 ben2 ben3 BlueHeart c2 Cillop Cillop-Midnite Clearlooks Clearlooks-Visto Clearlooks-Xp CoronaX-default Fuoco Gilouche Glossy GreenHeart Litoral Live OldVignette Plastik Polycarbonate-0.5 Shiny-Tango Soy TheBlues-gtk2-Amber Variance Water Wonderlooks XFwm4 YattaBlues Yattacier3 my personals are still active. /usr/share/themes is now empty but "Human" ben -- gnome-theme-manager hangs, stops updating UI https://launchpad.net/bugs/68578 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
