gnote crashed with SIGABRT in __libc_message()

[Jamie Strandboge]

After today's updates, I started GNote, then opened a note. Later I closed the note by clicking on the 'x' and both GNore windows disappeared and it crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnote 0.8.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-9.17~lp911236v1-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Jan 18 17:08:11 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnote
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110425.2)
ProcCmdline: gnote
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnote
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 free () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: gnote crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-02 (16 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=2, fmt=0x7f8647baf158 "*** glibc detected *** %s: %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:189
 malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7f8647bac16f "free(): invalid pointer", ptr=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:6283
 __GI___libc_free (mem=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3738
 g_datalist_clear (datalist=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.10/./glib/gdataset.c:283
 g_object_finalize (object=0x1d59000) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.10/./gobject/gobject.c:1008

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Peter Rhone (prhone-gmail)]

This same thing happens to me when I try to close the main window. I would expect persistence in the notification area, but I guess that hasn't been implemented yet.

[Jane Atkinson (irihapeti)]

Ran Gnote for the first time. Tried to close one of the default notes, and it crashed.

[Kevin William Watts (kwwwatts)]

As stated before opened gnote made a new note and closed it then minimized the program and it crashed

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/918463

[Colin Keenan (colinkeenan)]

Ever since I updated to Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3 a couple of weeks ago, this is how gnote runs. I used to run gnote on startup, but now I just open it whenever I need to check a note or create a new one. I know that when I try to close one note, the whole program will close, and it may not even record new notes or edits. I didn't realize it was crashing and thought this was a new very annoying behavior.

Has there been any progress on fixing the bug?

I have an AMD64 dual core processor, but am using the 32 bit version of Ubuntu.

[Colin Keenan (colinkeenan)]

After latest updates, gnote is almost working correctly. I have version 3.5.0. The only problem now is that closing the "Search All Notes" window closes the application. If status-icon has been enabled, the only way to close the application should be from the status-icon.

Of course, I realize gnote isn't included in the allowed status icons by default in Ubuntu so that I had to do some command-line stuff to make it show up. Maybe there's an environment variable gnote can check to find out if it's allowed to show the status-icon or not; so that, the user can only enable status-icon if it will actually be visible. If status-icon isn't enabled, closing "Search All Notes" would close the application. If status-icon is enabled, closing "Search All Notes" would just close that window, but keep the application going.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This seems to be fixed on up to date 12.10. If I see it again, I'll reopen.