Comment 116 for bug 34813

I did post a patched version a long time ago that worked for some people but it was for Intrepid so is now out of date. I'm still running Intrepid so that makes it difficult for me to help.

It appears to me that there is more than one bug if a fix works for some but not for all. This makes the issue very confusing to a developer to fix.

Can I suggest that anyone who still has the bug does the following;

Install strace if it isn't already installed
Close all gedits
From a terminal, run: "strace gedit 2>&1|grep -v strace > /tmp/strace.log"
In the gedit that runs, do as little as possible to reproduce the fault
As soon as the fault occurs, go back to the terminal and press Ctrl-C to stop the logging immediately

Then post the files /tmp/strace.log and /proc/mounts making sure that they don't contain any confidential information you don't want to reveal, as well as the filename and location that you were saving to so the logs can be searched easily. strace.log will be quite large.

This information is essential for a developer to figure out what is going on without just guessing. I can't promise anything though - the amount of effort required all depends on the results.