[GRLUG] gedit crash problem

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 06:02:43PM -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I'm having a problem with gedit. It's crashing each time I close
> it--discovered this when I would try to close one gedit window of
> several that were open. But now I have abrt (Automatic Bug Reporting
> Tool) activated and I'm getting a crash report even when I only have one
> gedit window open and close it. (Fedora 15)
> 
> I thought it a bug and did a bug report
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666653). When I sent in a
> stack trace they decided it was a bug in something called pygobject and
> suggested I upgrade to Fedora 16. But I don't have time now to hassle
> with another upgrade, so I'm trying to find out why the bug hasn't been
> fixed in Fedora 15. I posted to ask.fedoraproject.org but I'm not
> getting anywhere
> (http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/809/pygobject-bug).
> 
> I've just discovered that when I use gedit as a different mundane user
> and when I use it has root, this crash problem does not occur. I can
> open multiple gedit windows and close one without causing a crash. So
> I'm not sure that it in fact has anything to do with a bug in pygobject
> but rather with something about my installation.
> 
> I've tried removing and reinstalling gedit, but that doesn't help.
> 
> Any ideas what a useful next step would be?
> 
> Thanks.

Have you tried turning off all the plugins and reenabling them one at a
time to see if one causes the problem?  That the problem doesn't occur
with other users may suggest that the other users don't have the same
plugins enabled.
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john-thomas
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