Thanks, Seth. It clearly did cause loss of data, though, so I'm confused
about that part of your statement?
Something in the crash OR an automatic recovery process erased saved work
ethan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Seth Arnold 1296...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote:
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a regular (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public
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Title:
gedit crash erases all data in open files
Status in gedit package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Dmesg: gedit[3263]: segfault at 0 ip b6c0b06b sp bfb143ac error 4 in
libglib-2.0.so.0.3200.4[b6b9a000+f7000]
What I expected to happen: Gedit crashed, and I expected to be able to
open my saved files and resume working after the crash
What happened instead: Gedit somehow overwrote the saved files with
blank data. One file's hidden backup was deleted in the process, somehow.
I was able to restore a recent version from the other file's hidden backup
copy.
More information:
I had two saved files open as tabs in a single gedit window. I
copied a paragraph from the first tab, and opened up a saved
LibreOffice Writer document. Upon trying to paste the paragraph data
I had copied from gedit into libreoffice writer, gedit crashed.
Ubuntu prompt asked me whether I wanted to restart gedit, and i
confirmed. Gedit reopened the saved files as completely blank
documents.
I am checking the box for security vulnerability because it might be
something someone could exploit to force unauthorized loss of data.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-60.62-lowlatency-pae 3.2.55
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-60-lowlatency-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 23 21:14:03 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin - Release i386
(20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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