This bug was fixed in the package gedit - 3.31.92-1
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gedit (3.31.92-1) experimental; urgency=medium
* New upstream release
- Fix segfault in open document selector (lp: #1817459)
-- Sebastien Bacher Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:09:34
+0100
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
Ok, I found the issue and proposed a fix upstrfeam
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/merge_requests/27
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
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Ok, I managed to trigger it, you need to pick documents for the "recent
document" popdown, creating new ones or using ctrl+O to open files
doesn't do it (the function from the valgrind log hinted that)
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Could you give details on what you do exactly? Is adding tabs enough? Or
do you need to open existing documents? Do you save same or do editing
without saving in a way that should trigger the 'do you want to save
before exiting' dialog?
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Thanks, that has the details of the error
==2494== 1 errors in context 1 of 1208:
==2494== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==2494==at 0x483897B: free (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==2494==by 0x4891CEF:
Added the three debug ddebs and re-ran the test with valgrind. Just as
a note calling gedit and only adding a single text file will also fail
with a memory error. Have a second system also running 19.04 which also
appears to fails the same way with gedit.
** Attachment added: "valgrind.log"
Thanks, valgrind tend to avoid the segfault but does collect the errors
still, your log has one
==18294== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==18294==at 0x483897B: free (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==18294==by 0x4891CEF: ??? (in
Can get a consistent memory error by opening gedit from a command line
and then adding 3 small text files (have three tabs open). Then using
the window close terminating the gedit window. Get one of two error
indications but no error processing.
cliff@cliffps:~$ gedit
malloc_consolidate():
Thank you for your bug report. Do you have special plugins in use? Could you
describe what you were doing when hitting the issue?
Please also try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This
will greatly help
