[GRLUG] gedit crash problem

[Eric Beversluis]

On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 22:18 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 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.
As soon as I enable the Snippets plugin it starts crashing.
I tried uninstalling gedit and when I re-install it, 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?)


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