Abiword crashes when pasting images from Firefox

[Gulliver Moy]

I created this report via ubuntu-bug using the terminal and it suggested the following title so I'll just include it here in case it contains any relevant information which is not recorded elsewhere:
"gvfsd-http assert failure: *** Error in `/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f5e3ed9deb0 ***"
(... you've probably already noticed I'm new to this).

I've already tried to report this bug/crash but it was listed as invalid due to not going via ubuntu-bug; for the record that report can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1266615. What follows is copy and pasted from there.

So - I Simply try to copy an image from Firefox and paste it into Abiword and it comes up with the 'Ubuntu has encountered a problem' dialogue. Subsequent attempts just result in a new line. Text pastes fine, haven't tried other sources of images e.g. different browser. I have managed to get the occasional image to paste successfully from Firefox, but do not know how.

A friend who runs Xubuntu 12.?, was complaining of this, then another friend running 13.10 32bit said the same thing was happening. I am running 13.10 64bit, and can also replicate the error. My abiword version is 3.0.0.

Can not believe I'm not finding more on this by searching, seems like a major problem affecting all three of the Xubuntu users I know on different versions. All I came across was a bunch of very similar problems affecting older versions of Abiword - One had a fix in a later release, the others were listed as invalid due to how they were reported.

I get the following error by running Abiword from the terminal and then reproducing the problem:
** (abiword:7678): CRITICAL **: char* UT_go_url_resolve_relative(const char*, const char*): assertion 'ref_uri != NULL' failed

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gvfs-backends 1.18.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** Error in `/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f5e3ed9deb0 ***
Date: Tue Jan 7 00:59:30 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http
ExecutableTimestamp: 1380896806
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-24 (74 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/7
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gvfs
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f5e3e375240 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:199
 malloc_printerr (action=3, str=0x7f5e3e3755b8 "munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer", ptr=<optimised out>) at malloc.c:4923
 g_error_free () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: gvfsd-http assert failure: *** Error in `/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f5e3ed9deb0 ***
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin 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 #1210852, 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.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Gulliver Moy, thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Given this is fixed in Trusty, would you need a backport to a release prior to Trusty?

[Gulliver Moy (gully-moy)]

Sorry Christopher, you overestimate me. I do not know about 'backporting'. But a quick read on Wiki suggests that might make sense seeing as my 13.10 would be older than Trusty (14.10)...

(By the way, I don't get why names like Saucy and Trusty are used so much more than the version numbers. As a new user when I see a version number I instantly know what's being talked about and have an idea of the chronology of releases. When I see 'Trusty' I have to go back to Google.)

How would I go about getting a backport? Could I just try compiling/building this https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/1.19.2-0ubuntu1 ?