diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 66591686ce..63061c039c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2007-01-05  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
+
+	* tools/gst-inspect.c: (main):
+	* tools/gst-launch.c: (main):
+	* tools/gst-typefind.c: (main):
+	* tools/gst-xmlinspect.c: (main):
+	  Call g_thread_init() really really early, before any other GLib
+	  function (see #342564 and recent discussion on gtk-devel-list).
+
 2007-01-05  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
 
 	Patch by: Vincent Torri  <vtorri at univ-evry dot fr>
diff --git a/common b/common
index ee0bb43e2b..64f924f6f2 160000
--- a/common
+++ b/common
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ee0bb43e2b66781d04078e2210404da48f6c68f0
+Subproject commit 64f924f6f2ff6275b06facb4c2adbc7c05f70641
diff --git a/tools/gst-inspect.c b/tools/gst-inspect.c
index 6c5332cabd..4b1de631f8 100644
--- a/tools/gst-inspect.c
+++ b/tools/gst-inspect.c
@@ -1123,6 +1123,9 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
   textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
 #endif
 
+  if (!g_thread_supported ())
+    g_thread_init (NULL);
+
   ctx = g_option_context_new ("[ELEMENT-NAME | PLUGIN-NAME]");
   g_option_context_add_main_entries (ctx, options, GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
   g_option_context_add_group (ctx, gst_init_get_option_group ());
diff --git a/tools/gst-launch.c b/tools/gst-launch.c
index 38e7203779..d4a7cbf2f1 100644
--- a/tools/gst-launch.c
+++ b/tools/gst-launch.c
@@ -583,6 +583,9 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
   textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
 #endif
 
+  if (!g_thread_supported ())
+    g_thread_init (NULL);
+
   gst_alloc_trace_set_flags_all (GST_ALLOC_TRACE_LIVE);
 
   ctx = g_option_context_new ("PIPELINE-DESCRIPTION");
diff --git a/tools/gst-typefind.c b/tools/gst-typefind.c
index b8bd67c165..4f0e0a9c90 100644
--- a/tools/gst-typefind.c
+++ b/tools/gst-typefind.c
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
   textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
 #endif
 
+  if (!g_thread_supported ())
+    g_thread_init (NULL);
+
   ctx = g_option_context_new ("FILES");
   g_option_context_add_main_entries (ctx, options, GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
   g_option_context_add_group (ctx, gst_init_get_option_group ());
diff --git a/tools/gst-xmlinspect.c b/tools/gst-xmlinspect.c
index d6cf475e3b..8d41c4109b 100644
--- a/tools/gst-xmlinspect.c
+++ b/tools/gst-xmlinspect.c
@@ -775,6 +775,9 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 
   setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 
+  if (!g_thread_supported ())
+    g_thread_init (NULL);
+
   ctx = g_option_context_new ("[ELEMENT-NAME | PLUGIN-NAME]");
   g_option_context_add_main_entries (ctx, options, GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
   g_option_context_add_group (ctx, gst_init_get_option_group ());