gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in __memcpy_ssse3() (when using snippet)

StacktraceTop:
 __memcpy_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcpy-ssse3.S:1816
 _pygi_marshal_from_py_array (state=0x7fff669c63d0, callable_cache=0x7f735dc9ecc0, arg_cache=0x7f735d87de60, py_arg=[<Atom at remote 0x5b05730>, <Atom at remote 0x5b05940>, <Atom at remote 0x5b05520>, <Atom at remote 0x5b05050>, <Atom at remote 0x5b05b50>, <Atom at remote 0x5b05ec0>, <Atom at remote 0x5b05310>, <Atom at remote 0x5b03310>], arg=0x7f7351a20e80) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:52
 _invoke_marshal_in_args (cache=0x7f735dc9ecc0, state=0x7fff669c63d0) at /build/buildd/pygobject-3.0.0/gi/pygi-invoke.c:483
 _wrap_g_callable_info_invoke (self=0x669ae18, py_args=<optimized out>, kwargs=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/pygobject-3.0.0/gi/pygi-invoke.c:620
 ext_do_call (nk=0, na=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>, pp_stack=0x7fff669c6560, func=<built-in method invoke of gi.FunctionInfo object at remote 0x669ae18>) at ../Python/ceval.c:4331

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

Apport Retracing Service thinks, that my last report (#865214) is a duplicate of this bug. If this is true, then this bug has something to do with the snippets-plugin. In my case, the crashes on drag and drop only happen if the snippets plugin is on. If it's disabled, drag and drop works for me.

I confirm that disabling the snippets plugin is a workaround to the crash. So, this bug is related to Bug #865214.

This is because of a Gtk.targets_include_uri(context.list_targets()) call in snippets plugin. I'm checking now if this is due to bad gtk bindings or not for drag contexts...

Reproducable with just:

from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk
Gtk.targets_include_uri([Gdk.Atom.intern('text/plain', False)])

I think this is a failure of pygobject to notice the 'disguised' GIR property of Gdk.Atom. I've filed an upstream bug about it.

This page [1] suggests that this is fixed upstream in gedit 3.2.3.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/80992/cant-drag-and-drop-text-in-gedit

The corresponding commit is:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/commit/?h=gnome-3-2&id=d9e37ea7aced28f6d30026e097039e9bfb5cd106

Mike, do you think you could SRU that (or the 3.2.3 update maybe, the git logs seem to indicate the changes there should be fine in a SRU)

the new version fixes bug #840765 as well

I've uploaded gedit 3.2.3 to oneiric-proposed. Will subscribe ubuntu-sru. This is a good SRU candidate because it will crash gedit, causing data loss if you haven't saved.

To reproduce, open gedit, enable the snippets plugin, and drag text from some other window into gedit.

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gedit into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I confirm that installing the package from oneiric-proposed (gedit version 3.2.3-0ubuntu0.1) solves the issue ---i.e., drag and drop from nautilus no longer crashes gedit when the snippets plugin is enabled.

This bug was fixed in the package gedit - 3.2.3-0ubuntu0.1

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gedit (3.2.3-0ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Fixes crash when dragging text into gedit (LP: #863773)
    - Fixes "Edit->Insert Date" menu item (LP: #840765)
  * debian/patches/07_pyconsole_crash.patch:
    - Dropped, applied upstream
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:16:58 -0500

This was fixed in April already.

oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".