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gedit package

/usr/bin/gedit:11:gedit_metadata_manager_set:gedit_document_set_metadata:save_metadata:gedit_document_dispose:g_object_unref

Bug #1822753 reported by errors.ubuntu.com bug bridge
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gedit
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gedit (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Andrea Azzarone
Disco
Fix Released
Undecided
Andrea Azzarone

Bug Description

[Impact]
Gedit crashes when it is closed while a file is being loaded or just after the file has been loaded.

The bug is a regression in Disco: in Cosmic Gedit is built using autotools while in Disco we use meson. During the port to meson upstream forgot to port a build option (in particular 'enable-gvfs-metadata', enabled by default). Without this option a broken - and untested - code path is activated.

To fix this bug we should reintroduce the 'enable-gvfs-metadata' option.

[Test case]
1. Create a big text file
2. Open gedit
3. Close the window while the file is still being loaded

Also check there are no more reports in e.u.c.

[Regression Potential]
The change affects the way gedit stores the file metadata. Try for example
1. open a file
2. focus a random line
3. close the file
4. re-open the file
5. make sure the random line that you focused in point 2. is focused

[Original report]
The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding gedit. This problem was most recently seen with package version 3.32.0-1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/011263859266370f9e85de3368ab51716dadbf28 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/.

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Revision history for this message
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

The first issues it that gedit should use gvfs to store file metadata. Since the port of gedit to meson this feature has been lost. I've proposed a fix upstream here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/merge_requests/32

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

General fix proposed upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/merge_requests/35

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gedit:
status: Unknown → New
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
description: updated
description: updated
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gedit:
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gedit into disco-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/3.32.0-3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-disco to verification-done-disco. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-disco. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu Disco):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-disco
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gedit - 3.32.0-3

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gedit (3.32.0-3) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * d/p/build-Reintroduce-enable-gvfs-metadata-option.patch:
    - Reintroduce enable-gvfs-metadata option. (LP: #1822753)
  * d/p/gitlab_idle_handling.patch:
    - Patch refreshed automatically by gbp pq import/export.
  * d/p/series:
    - Added d/p/build-Reintroduce-enable-gvfs-metadata-option.patch

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:19:15 +0100

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu Disco):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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