thank you for your bug report, the issue was a glib one which got sorted before oneiric so closing the bug
** Visibility changed to: Public ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/843984 Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref() Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref() ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gedit 3.1.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Sep 7 17:19:09 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1) ProcCmdline: gedit ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x10434f3 <g_variant_unref+35>: lock xadd %eax,0x14(%esi) PC (0x010434f3) ok source "%eax" ok destination "0x14(%esi)" (0x00000014) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)! SegvReason: writing NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gedit StacktraceTop: g_variant_unref () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_settings_get_boolean () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 gedit_settings_get_lockdown () ?? () g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_unref() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-25 (13 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/843984/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp