gedit crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()

Bug #1499747 reported by Franck
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This bug affects 29 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gedit (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
Unassigned
glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
unity-gtk-module (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
William Hua

Bug Description

Gedit crashed just after opening a (small) text file from nautilus with "Open with".

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-11.13-lowlatency 4.2.1
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-11-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Sep 25 16:05:28 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-13 (285 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
ProcCmdline: gedit /home/username/Bureau/Export_cabmnt_329340483152739798.csv
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
Title: gedit crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-09-21 (4 days ago)
UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dialout dip libvirtd lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo

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Franck (alci) wrote :
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Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

This is trivially reproducible on a Live session, just do gedit /var/log/*.log and wait about 5 seconds.

information type: Private → Public
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1499747

tags: added: iso-testing
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Ertan Günay (ergunay) wrote :

it happened once after open a text file

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

It's *probably* a bug in unity-gtk-module - Will has been looking into this.

Changed in unity-gtk-module (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in unity-gtk-module (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → William Hua (attente)
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Oh and you can reproduce it by turning the External Tools plugin on

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Colin Law (colin-law) wrote :

Is bug #1499575 (gnucash crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()) which seems to have a similar stack top probably the same issue? It is causing gnucash to be completely unusable on Wily (for me anyway).

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Michael Thayer (michael-thayer) wrote :

I can also reproduce this as described in comment 14, and get it whenever I start Pidgin and log in to my Jabber account:

$ pidgin
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/glib2.0-pRoDo9/glib2.0-2.46.0/./gio/gmenuexporter.c:256:g_menu_exporter_menu_items_changed: assertion failed: (position + removed <= g_sequence_get_length (menu->item_links))
Aborted (core dumped)

$ gedit
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/glib2.0-pRoDo9/glib2.0-2.46.0/./gio/gmenuexporter.c:256:g_menu_exporter_menu_items_changed: assertion failed: (position + removed <= g_sequence_get_length (menu->item_links))
Aborted (core dumped)

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Mentis (mentis-by) wrote :

Is any workaround available? Happens to me whenever I try start Eclipse.

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

My workaround (works for pidgin) is to (you need to have ssh setup..) :
1. Open a terminal
2. ssh localhost -Y
3. Run pidgin &

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Try the glib in ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa please

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

@laney that definitely fixes my pidgin and appears to fix gedit too..

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William Hua (attente) wrote :

I can't reproduce it in gedit or pidgin any more with the PPA glib. Thanks!

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

I uploaded it to unstable and will sync when Launchpad picks it up, thanks for the testing

Iain Lane (laney)
Changed in unity-gtk-module (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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pdecat (pdecat) wrote :

Updating to 2.46.0-1+ppa1 from the PPA also fixed this issue with eclipse for me.

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

I haven't had this issue since upgrading to glib2.0 (2.46.0-2). Can this and related issues be closed as Fixed?

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: [Bug 1499747] Re: gedit crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:30:29PM -0000, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> I haven't had this issue since upgrading to glib2.0 (2.46.0-2). Can
> this and related issues be closed as Fixed?

If they are fixed, then mark them as so.

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Colin Law (colin-law)
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Michael Thayer (michael-thayer) wrote :

Seems to be fixed here too.

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Gautier (castelain-gautier) wrote :

I just meet this bug installing Abiword from the apt repository.
Why the upgrading of the glib2.0 is not join to the action do by :
sudo apt-get install abiword

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