zim crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_prepare()

[Graham F]

Binary package hint: zim

just done an edit source to gedit when I got this error. Wannted to see the underlying syntax for the text files.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 14:09:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/zim
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/perl
Package: zim 0.28-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/zim
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x2e2f3e <g_main_context_prepare+366>: mov (%eax),%esi
 PC (0x002e2f3e) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x00c47c00) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%esi" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: zim
StacktraceTop:
 g_main_context_prepare () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 XS_Gtk2_main () from /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so
Title: zim crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_prepare()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Probably due to a glitch in either gtk itself or the gtk-perl bindings. A bug in the perl code in which the application is written should never result in a segfault.

Since zim 0.42 is a complete rewrite now using python-gtk bindings instead, and since gtk has seen new releases since this bug report I advise closing it.