gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_menu_model_get_n_items()

[Antoine-terracol]

Gedit 3.22 crashes upon launch whenever gedit-latex-plugin AND (the Snippets plugin OR External tools) are enabled.

Gedit works fine with onlt the latex plugin OR the snippet plugin enabled.

Steps to reproduce :

Open gedit
go to edit-preferences-plugins
uncheck all plugins
check only the snippets plugin
close gedit
install gedit-latex-plugin
open gedit
go to edit-preferences-plugins
check Latex plugin in addition to the Snippet plugin
close gedit
when attempting to open gedit again, it should segfault

To be able to launch gedit again uninstall gedit-latex-plugin

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gedit 3.22.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-21.23-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 8 15:45:50 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-14 (878 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcCmdline: gedit
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7efcaac19f80 <g_menu_model_get_n_items>: mov (%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7efcaac19f80) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 g_menu_model_get_n_items () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/libgedit.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/libgedit.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/libgedit.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/libgedit.so
Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_menu_model_get_n_items()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-07 (1 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_menu_model_get_n_items () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_dfnTjg/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 find_extension_point_section (model=0x561428edcf90, extension_point=extension_point@entry=0x561428be23f0 "preferences-section") at gedit/gedit-app.c:1715
 find_extension_point_section (model=0x561428852520, extension_point=extension_point@entry=0x561428be23f0 "preferences-section") at gedit/gedit-app.c:1722
 find_extension_point_section (model=0x56142884d120, extension_point=extension_point@entry=0x561428be23f0 "preferences-section") at gedit/gedit-app.c:1722
 _gedit_app_extend_menu (app=0x56142871c1e0, extension_point=0x561428be23f0 "preferences-section") at gedit/gedit-app.c:1943

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Marking as Invalid because the release is EOL is not correct. Marking as Incomplete. Also, 18.04 is (at the time of writing) still in development, and you should expect some breakage.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Release_has_reached_End_of_Life_.28EOL.29

Reporter, is this still present on 17.10 or 16.04?