bluefish fails to start in 14.04

[tallien]

1) Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
NVIDIA graphics card.

2) bluefish:
  Installed: 2.2.5-1
  Candidate: 2.2.5-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.5-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Clicking on Bluefish icon from HUD - nothing happens, program never starts.

4) Running Bluefish from terminal - error message is shown, program never starts.

Bluefish was running fine in 13.10. I upgraded to 14.04 (32 bit) and reinstalled Bluefish after upgrade.

From Synaptic, when installing Bluefish:

(synaptic:5163): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed
(Reading database [...] files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../bluefish-data_2.2.5-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking bluefish-data (2.2.5-1) over (2.2.5-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../bluefish_2.2.5-1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking bluefish (2.2.5-1) over (2.2.5-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../bluefish-plugins_2.2.5-1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking bluefish-plugins (2.2.5-1) over (2.2.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ...
Setting up bluefish-data (2.2.5-1) ...
Setting up bluefish-plugins (2.2.5-1) ...
Setting up bluefish (2.2.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ...

After this, I tried to run Bluefish and the program failed to start. In terminal, the error message was:

(bluefish:18130): GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.0/./glib/gmem.c:103: failed to allocate 4125921482 bytes
Trace/breakpoint trap

I mentioned this on the GLib-CRITICAL error thread in two comments, here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1282542/comments/32 and here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1282542/comments/33, and someone suggested I file a bug report against Bluefish, so here it is.

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

You probably hit a bug already fixed in bluefish 2.2.6 (see #1300648). AFAIK there is already a request to at least upload a fixed bluefish version to trusty-updates or trusty-backports. But you can use a recent bluefish package from Klaus Vormweg PPA for the being.

https://launchpad.net/~klaus-vormweg/+archive/ubuntu/bluefish

[tallien (tallien)]

Thanks very much Daniel! I installed the PPA version you recommended and it starts up just fine, so it looks like you were correct. Sorry for the duplication, I did not realize it was the same issue as the other bug you mentioned.

[tallien (tallien)]

Appears to be same issue as bug 1300648 and is fixed upon upgrading to version 2.2.6-1.