gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in gedit_multi_notebook_get_active_tab()

[Tim Lunn]

crashed with about 5 tabs open

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gedit 3.8.0-0ubuntu1~raring1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-1.5-generic 3.9.1
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-1-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.10.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 16 12:26:21 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
ExecutableTimestamp: 1367295250
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-23 (235 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64(20120922)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gedit
ProcCwd: /home/darkness
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x460076 <gedit_multi_notebook_get_active_tab+22>: cmp %rax,(%rdx)
 PC (0x00460076) ok
 source "%rax" ok
 destination "(%rdx)" (0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 gedit_multi_notebook_get_active_tab ()
 ?? ()
 selection_received (widget=0x1e09dd0, selection_data=0x7fffd9d55a70, time=<optimised out>) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.8.2/./gtk/gtkclipboard.c:939
 g_closure_invoke (closure=0x1fbe0e0, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=3, param_values=0x7fffd9d55720, invocation_hint=0x7fffd9d556c0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.0/./gobject/gclosure.c:777
 signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@entry=0x19c8db0, detail=detail@entry=0, instance=instance@entry=0x1e09dd0, emission_return=emission_return@entry=0x0, instance_and_params=instance_and_params@entry=0x7fffd9d55720) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.0/./gobject/gsignal.c:3584
Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in gedit_multi_notebook_get_active_tab()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

I'm pretty certain this happened when one of the files that was open in gedit, got deleted from disk.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

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