Gedit crashes on opening text file

Bug #1519697 reported by zzarko
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gedit (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
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Bug Description

When trying to open certain text files, Gedit crashes for me. When a file crashes Gedit, the same thing happens when clicking on file or opening it from command line. It also doesn't matter if Gedit is already started or not (if it is started, opening such a file results in lost work on all unsaved files). As an example, in the attachment is the text file that always crashes Gedit for me. Here is the output when starting from command line:
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gedit RetroCollection.gcs
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ERROR:../../gi/pygi-argument.c:1583:_pygi_argument_to_object: code should not be reached
Aborted (core dumped)
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Opening file in other editors is OK (tried with Geany and internal editor from Double Commander). It might be of importance that I have several plugins for Gedit from Ubuntu repository installed and active.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-70.113-generic 3.13.11-ckt29
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-70-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Nov 25 09:29:58 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-02 (479 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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zzarko (zzarko-gmail) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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zzarko (zzarko-gmail) wrote :

Well, I have disabled gedit crash reports a long time ago, and I don't get the dialog explained in the link you provided. But, I did ran gedit inside gdb and the backtrace output is in the attached file. I hope it helps. If not, how to re-enable crash reports for gedit?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the backtrace is not really useful, but the issue is in python code and gedit doesn't use it by default, could you try to disable plugins and see if that helps?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gedit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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