gedit crashes when opening an empty file

[Kevin]

Binary package hint: gedit

gedit crashes when opening an empty file.

1. create an empty file by right-clicking on the file browser and choosing 'create document' then 'empty file'.
2. double-click on the file to open
3. gedit runs and crashes immediately (The gedit window disappears).

I tried in the terminal as well and got the following message.
$ gedit anEmptyFile
(gedit:14929): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_converter_convert: assertion `outbuf_size > 0' failed
Segmentation fault

I'm using Ubuntu Linux 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Desktop (64bit). It's upgraded from 9.10.
The version of gedit is 2.30.2.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy gedit
gedit:
  Installed: 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gedit 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 9 06:22:39 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

 If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

 If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

 If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
 I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Kevin (kevinshlee)]

Thanks Sebastien. I'll do that.
Regards,
Kevin

[shoo_ash (ash-mail)]

Same bug.

(gedit:9848): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_converter_convert: assertion `outbuf_size > 0' failed
Segmentation fault

It happens when I try to open empty file while the first auto_detected encoding is windows-1251, no problems when it is UTF.

[Kevin (kevinshlee)]

Thanks shoo_ash. Yes, you're right. I found the same. :)
I changed the value of /apps/gedit-2/preferences/encodings/auto_detected through gconf-editor so the first charset to be detected in my gedit is not UTF-8 so it happens.