gedit randomly crash on close with GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.27.91/gio/gdbusconnection.c:4404:call_in_idle_cb: assertion failed: (vtable != NULL && vtable->method_call != NULL)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Binary package hint: gedit

gedit randomly crash when I close it (ALT+F4 or Window button) with the following assertion.

$ gedit
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.27.91/gio/gdbusconnection.c:4404:call_in_idle_cb: assertion failed: (vtable != NULL && vtable->method_call != NULL)
Aborted (core dumped)

After a crash the global menu doesn't work correctly when gedit is launched again (either active but clicking on the submenus does nothing or the whole menu is disabled)

Test Case:
- open a terminal
- launch gedit
- close it
- repeat until it crashes (usually between 5 to 10 tries)

Apport doesn't want to automatically report it so I've attached the data collected including the core dump.

Sorry for this poor quality report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gedit 2.30.4-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 21 16:12:03 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.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.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

how does it "doesn't want to automatically report"? could you run ubuntu-bug -c on the .crash to report it?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

iirc, apport said the "The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes."

anyhow, this issue didn't occurred for a while, it's safe to close.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, apport got updated since to report those because even if they lack info it's less confusion and work to have them submitted than to ask for extra details so if you run into the issue again feel free to open a new bug