Opening "Edit Symbol Fields" dialog crashes kicad

[Brendan Haines]

Kicad crashes when the "Edit Symbol Fields" button is clicked in Eeschema

[44165.178164] kicad[32221]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f9cbd2661e1 sp 00007ffe6e52c4e8 error 4 in libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0.4.0[7f9cbd13d000+277000]

Application: kicad
Version: 6.0.0-rc1-unknown-3927dc5~66~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.65.1
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

What PPA is this from?

[Fabián Inostroza (fabianinostroza)]

I can reproduce

Application: kicad
Version: (6.0.0-rc1-dev-637-g704615721), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.0 GnuTLS/3.5.19 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.4) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.32.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.62.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=OFF

[Connor Crenshaw (connorgames-geek)]

Also happening here. Commit 3f6819e5920bfb23ac7ec49ac473a2780232f3c1, self built on linux mint.
I'm getting some asserts when I open the dialog box

connor@Zoidberg:~/kicad/build$ gdb kicad
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Reading symbols from kicad...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/kicad
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
02:51:37: Debug: Checking template path '/usr/local/share/kicad/template' exists
02:51:37: Debug: Checking template path '/home/connor/kicad/template' exists
[New Thread 0x7fffe5732700 (LWP 24236)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe4f31700 (LWP 24237)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdffff700 (LWP 24238)]
02:51:37 AM: Debug: FileWatcherReset: add '/home/connor/Dropbox/Electronics/MATEmdp/Power_Stage/Prelim_Schema_For_review'

02:51:37 AM: Debug: FileWatcherReset: watched paths:
02:51:37 AM: Debug: /home/connor/Dropbox/Electronics/MATEmdp/Power_Stage/

02:51:37 AM: Debug: /home/connor/Dropbox/Electronics/MATEmdp/Power_Stage/Prelim_Schema_For_review/

LoadAllLibraries: lib_names:
 Power_Stage-cache

(kicad:24216): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 02:51:49.247: IA__gtk_tree_view_column_set_fixed_width: assertion 'fixed_width > 0' failed

(kicad:24216): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 02:51:49.247: IA__gtk_tree_view_column_set_fixed_width: assertion 'fixed_width > 0' failed

(kicad:24216): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 02:51:49.247: IA__gtk_tree_view_column_set_fixed_width: assertion 'fixed_width > 0' failed

Thread 1 "kicad" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff66bb1e1 in wxString::compare(wxString const&) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x00007ffff66bb1e1 in wxString::compare(wxString const&) const () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
#1 0x00007fffdeef575d in wxString::Cmp(wxString const&) const (this=0x5555578b8660, s=...) at /usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/string.h:2111
#2 0x00007fffdeefdeeb in operator<(wxString const&, wxString const&) (s1=..., s2=...) at /usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/string.h:3994
#3 0x00007fffdef05b43 in std::less<wxString>::operator()(wxString const&, wxString const&) const (this=0x5555578eba28, __x=..., __y=...) at /usr/include/c++/7/bits/stl_function.h:386
#4 0x00007fffdef0a658 in std::_Rb_tree<wxString, std::pair<wxString const, wxString>, std::_Select1st<std::pair<wxString const, wxString> >, std::less<wxString>, std::allocator<std::pair<wxString const, wxString> > >::_M_lower_bound(std::_Rb_tree_node<s...