I am still experiencing the issue but could not wait until it gets resolved. So found the solution myself is to open a file in geany on CLI. This is a temporary fix.
$ geany foobar So you can now open a new file using CTRL+O without crashing geany. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/851383 Title: geany crashed when trying to open a second file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/851383/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs