gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_normalize()

[Alexandre Demers]

Binary package hint: gedit

Choosed save as
Wrote down the file name
Saved and it crashed

After verification, the file had been written correctly before crash happened.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 14 02:03:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.27.6-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gedit
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xa73f70: cmpb $0x0,(%esi)
 PC (0x00a73f70) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%esi)" (0x00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_utf8_normalize () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_normalize()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:_g_utf8_normalize_wc (str=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>,
IA__g_utf8_normalize (str=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>,
completion_match_func (comp=0x8931098,
gtk_entry_completion_visible_func (model=0x88c96d0,
gtk_tree_model_filter_visible (

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, could you still reproduce it after latest updates?

[Alexandre Demers (oxalin)]

No crash anymore on my side
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:31:41 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 429183] Re: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_normalize()
>
> Thanks for the report, could you still reproduce it after latest
> updates?
>
> ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>
> --
> gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_normalize()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429183
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gedit
>
> Choosed save as
> Wrote down the file name
> Saved and it crashed
>
> After verification, the file had been written correctly before crash happened.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Sep 14 02:03:25 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
> Package: gedit 2.27.6-0ubuntu1
> ProcCmdline: gedit
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
> SegvAnalysis:
> Segfault happened at: 0xa73f70: cmpb $0x0,(%esi)
> PC (0x00a73f70) ok
> source "$0x0" ok
> destination "(%esi)" (0x00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
> SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: gedit
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> g_utf8_normalize () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_normalize()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug since that works now