gitg crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message() when called from CLI with PWD set in a git repo

[Thomas A. F. Thorne]

From within present working directory that is a git repository I did:
gitg &

I was then going to click on a log entry to inspect what the changeset had brought in but gitg exited and provided the error that I am not reporting.

I had rebooted my PC about 10 minutes before this. Prior to that I had completed a distribution upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 via the using the `do-release-upgrade -d` command. Before the upgrade I had been regularly using gitg to view git log data and generate git commits for this repository.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gitg 3.17.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jun 8 15:34:00 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gitg
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-12 (453 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
ProcCmdline: gitg
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gitg
StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gitg crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-08 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin mock plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1561949, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Thomas A. F. Thorne (tafthorne)]

The suggested bug, bug #1561949 cannot be found by me. I take it that means it is private? As such I cannot "look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. "

[fcodvpt (fcodvpt)]

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 16.04 and I can not access to the #1561949 bug report to solve my problem.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 31 10:02:09 2017
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gitg
ExecutableTimestamp: 1449391661
ProcCmdline: gitg
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>

Package: gitg 3.17.1-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64

StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Tags: xenial

Title: gitg crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()
UnreportableReason:
 Les versions installées de certains paquets sont obsolètes. Veuillez mettre à niveau les paquets suivants, puis vérifier si le problème est toujours présent :

 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, libtiff5, libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
_MarkForUpload: True

I've got an update warning but there seem to be no update for the listed packages.

$ sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 is already the newest version (2.16.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1).
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.