[GRLUG] gedit crash problem

[Eric Beversluis]

On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 18:12 -0500, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> john-thomas
> ------
> Adults are obsolete children.
> Dr. Seuss, humorist, illustrator, and author (1904-1991)
> 
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.



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