[GRLUG] gedit crash problem

[Eric Beversluis]

On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 13:56 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 23:11 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > > Good idea. Seems to be working ok with no plugins at all. Now I'll try
> > > adding. 
> > > Crazy that the Gnome people didn't come up with that idea two weeks ago
> > > for me.
> > As soon as I enable the Snippets plugin it starts crashing.
> 
> So if you leave the snippets plugin it works reliably?  If you run [and
> use] "gedit" from gnome-terminal what does the stack-trace /
> error-message look like?
> 
With Snippets disabled, it works. Enable snippets and it crashes on
closing:

[eric at localhost ~]$ gedit
Fatal Python error: PyEval_SaveThread: NULL tstate
Aborted (core dumped)
[eric at localhost ~]$ 


> > I tried uninstalling gedit and when I re-install it,
> 
> Yea, that won't fix it.  Unlike in Windows this is almost always a waste
> of tme.
> 
> >  Snippets is still
> > checked--so somehow Fedora Add-Remove Software is not completely wiping
> > gedit stuff. Is there some config file I should change or delete to try
> > to totally clean out old gedit settings? (Would that help anything?)
> 
> Adding removing packages never touches user configuration; that is a
> feature.   I believe gedit still uses GConf [vs. the new DConf] so if
> you use gconf-editor and delete the /apps/gedit-2 key (or its content)
> and then start gedit you will probably go back to a default
> configuration.
> 
> If the Fedora gedit has been ported to DConf then use dconf-editor to do
> the same thing.
> 
I installed dconf-editor, but it shows no key for gedit.



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