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gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

Bug #348536 reported by Hernando Torque on 2009-03-25

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This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gedit	Fix Released	Critical	gnome-bugs #576766
	gedit (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gedit

This crash is caused by the "Draw Spaces" plugin (which doesn't work when enabled).

To reproduce:

1. Edit > Preferences > Plugins
2. (Tick), untick, tick "Draw Spaces"
3. Click "Configure Plugin" and change any checkbox state

gedit:
  Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
gedit-plugins:
  Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: gedit
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
g_type_check_instance_cast ()
?? () from /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/libdrawspaces.so
?? () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
gconf_listeners_notify () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
?? () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/gedit

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2009-03-25:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (25.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (771 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (528 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (735 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (762 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-03-25

Changed in gedit:
status:	Unknown → New

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-03-26: Symbolic stack trace

#2

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:IA__g_type_check_instance_cast (type_instance=0x81bea60,
on_gconf_notify (client=0x81f7798, cnxn_id=2432696339,
notify_listeners_callback (listeners=0x8204a70,
gconf_listeners_notify (listeners=0x8204a70,
notify_one_entry (client=0x81f7798, entry=0x839ec50)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-03-26: Symbolic threaded stack trace

#3

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in gedit:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2009-03-26

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	New → Triaged

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-04-02:

#4

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-04-06

Changed in gedit:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-05-28:

#5

This bug was fixed in the package gedit - 2.27.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
gedit (2.27.1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: (LP: #380924)
    - Remove the mmap document loader (Paolo Borelli)
    - Remove open location dialog and sample plugin (Paolo Borelli)
    - Added public API for document saving (Jesse van den Kieboom)
    - Put external tools in a submenu (Jesse van den Kieboom)
    - Added language support for external tools (Jesse van den Kieboom)
    - Implemented asynchronous reading and writing on external tools (Jesse van den Kieboom)
    - Add Quick Open plugin (Jesse van den Kieboom)
    - Misc bugfixes
    - New and updated translations
  * debian/patches/90_autoconf.patch
    - updated for new version
  * Launchpad bugs fixed:
    - various crasher bugs (LP: #348536, LP: #368262, LP: #368495)
    - fix modeline scanning (LP: #367160)

-- Andreas Moog <email address hidden> Wed, 27 May 2009 14:00:44 +0200

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in gedit:
importance:	Unknown → Critical

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