Fontforge crashes when I try to expand a stroke

[Ricardo Bánffy]

FontForge has been shaky since the first release of Unity, but now, with Gnome 3, it has become unusable. It crashes for no apparent reason, when you hit Control, when you select a function from a menu (that's new - last time I had to use it, menus were safe). Maybe the transcript below helps.

rbanffy@e-ig-2010:~$ fontforge projetos/autonomic/fontes/3270/3270Medium_HQ.sfd
Copyright (c) 2000-2011 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011-ML.
 Library based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011.
Failed to create a fontset for the input method
-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1,-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-3,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-4,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-7,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-10,-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-11,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-13,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-14,-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15,-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u,-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0,-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific,-adobe-zapfdingbats-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific,-jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-160-jisx0208.1983-0,-daewoo-gothic-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-160-ksc5601.1987-0,-isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0,-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-77-iso10646-1
Segmentation fault

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: fontforge 0.0.20110222-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 22 17:35:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64+mac (20110901)
SourcePackage: fontforge
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Vanessa Lee (vanessax)]

Same thing happens on Lucid, there is a few second delay after doing that but does not occur every single time.

[Zephyris (be-very-happy-or-else)]

This bug (specifically the crash on selecting Element>Expand Stroke...) affects me too.
FontForge version: 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011 (20110222-ML)
Library version: 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011
Ubuntu version: 12.04 LTS, affects 32 and 64 bit versions