gedit crashed with SIGSEGV

Bug #908718 reported by Daniel Winzen
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gedit
Won't Fix
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gedit (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

gedit crashed while loading a very big file about 50MB.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gedit 3.2.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-6.12-generic-pae 3.2.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-6-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Dec 25 22:51:48 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: gedit /media/07EF-002F/Android/data/com.navfree.android.OSM.ALL/files/UserData/maps/$com.MAP.OSM.DEU/map_osm_5.3.0.99/deu/map_osm_5.3.0.99/saarland.12.ydb
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8083816: mov 0x8(%eax),%eax
 PC (0x08083816) ok
 source "0x8(%eax)" (0xaaaaaab2) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-18 (7 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

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Daniel Winzen (q-d-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
visibility: private → public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 scroll_to_cursor (tab=0x92e5828) at gedit-tab.c:956
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
tags: added: apport-failed-retrace
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, does it happen every time you try to open that file? It seems a bit similar to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317800

Could you get a stacktrace using gdb when it happens?

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Daniel Winzen (q-d-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Yes, it happens every time I try to open that file or files with the same size. I have to stop gedit manual with gnome-system-monitor after it crashed.
I don't know how to use gdb, so I can't get a stacktrace.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Could you try to follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and get a valgrind log for the issue?

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Daniel Winzen (q-d-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Now I got a valgrind log for the issue.

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Daniel Winzen (q-d-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

PS: A few days ago I made an update of gedit, now there is no crash anymore, it just takes about 10 minutes to load the file.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
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the issue is

"==5940== Invalid write of size 4
==5940== at 0x4B5B5E7: g_nullify_pointer (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4AA779A: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4B0FD35: g_datalist_id_set_data_full (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4AA78D8: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4061660: ??? (in /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-3.0.so.0.0.0)
==5940== by 0x80770AD: ??? (in /usr/bin/gedit)
==5940== by 0x4AA8921: g_object_unref (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4356A3F: gtk_text_view_set_buffer (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x435950C: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x808C29C: ??? (in /usr/bin/gedit)
==5940== by 0x4AA653B: g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4AA39DC: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4AA4EB5: g_closure_invoke (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4AB6704: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4ABE0C1: g_signal_emit_valist (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== Address 0xc8d5ebc is 28 bytes inside a block of size 128 free'd
==5940== at 0x402906C: free (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==5940== by 0x4B32B5A: ??? (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4B32CCF: g_free (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4B470FA: g_slice_free1 (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4AC6401: g_type_free_instance (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4AA8A7A: g_object_unref (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4079FBC: ??? (in /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-3.0.so.0.0.0)
==5940== by 0x4B29AF7: g_list_foreach (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x4B29B41: g_list_free_full (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x407A87F: ??? (in /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-3.0.so.0.0.0)
==5940== by 0x4AA8921: g_object_unref (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x409C637: ??? (in /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-3.0.so.0.0.0)
==5940== by 0x808C3A8: ??? (in /usr/bin/gedit)
==5940== by 0x4AAA026: g_object_run_dispose (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3115.0)
==5940== by 0x43D4280: gtk_widget_destroy (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x41805BB: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x42F431F: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x41D63A6: gtk_container_foreach (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x41D7754: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x42F4B4F: ??? (in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.313.0)
==5940== by 0x4AA653B: g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (in /usr/lib/i386-li...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

or and gedit-dbgsym as well

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Daniel Winzen (q-d-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Now I installed the debug packages and got again a valgrid log.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thanks, that new log has no similar error though ... could you try again and see if you have some gtk_text_view_set_buffer mention in the log for example?

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Daniel Winzen (q-d-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Now I got a third version of valgrind log.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gedit:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gedit:
importance: Critical → Wishlist
Changed in gedit:
status: New → Won't Fix
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