gedit hangs when opening a second file

[Nick Doylend]

I can open a single file with gedit by right-clicking the file in Nautilus and selecting Open With... Text Editor. If I do the same thing a second time with a different file gedit begins to load the file into a new tab as expected but then hangs before the Loading file progress bar completes. The only way to exit is by clicking the close window button and selecting Force Quit from the '... is not responding' message box. The same thing happens if I load the second file into gedit from the command line or if I load it using gedit's Open button. The files are large but not huge (about 2Mb) and are usually tab or comma separated text files.

I am using gedit version 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 with Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS on a fairly recent Core i5 laptop with 4Gb RAM. Hopefully apport has attached the relevant files, however please let me know if there's any further information that would be helpful.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-44.69-generic 3.2.44
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-44-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 3 13:01:09 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors:
 (vino-server:2156): EggSMClient-CRITICAL **: egg_sm_client_set_mode: assertion `global_client == NULL || global_client_mode == EGG_SM_CLIENT_MODE_DISABLED' failed
 (vino-server:2156): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.
 (vino-server:2156): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.
 (compiz:2136): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_add_dir: assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed
 (gnome-system-log:3618): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_buffer_insert: assertion `text != NULL' failed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported in a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do and in which version of Ubuntu otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

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Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gedit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]