gedit crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

[Brandon Clark]

I can't use gedit without it crashing!!! DOn't know why yet.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-21.28-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Oct 10 12:55:57 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-28 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140923)
ProcCmdline: gedit /home/username/Desktop/my-site/hooks/install
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 XIGetClientPointer () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
Title: gedit crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1379628, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Silvio Bierman (sbierman)]

Same here. Gedit is practically unworkable. When editing text files the mouse cursor often becomes invisible when moving it over the edit window and during editing it crashes at random moments.

System is 14.10 fresh install.

[Mark W Wenning (mwenning)]

The fix in #1376494 seems to work for me:

 sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk
log out/in