NEdit crashes on launch in Ubuntu 15.04

[Rod Smith]

On a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 15.04 with the "nedit" package and a few others added, nedit crashes (segfaults) on startup. I'm attaching the /var/crash/_usr_bin_nedit.1000.crash file from such a crash. Further version information from this system:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04

$ apt-cache policy nedit
nedit:
  Installed: 1:5.6-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:5.6-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:5.6-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Hi Roderick,

Thanks for reporting this issue.

If the issue is so reproducible for you, could you install nedit-dbg
(and gdb), start nedit under gdb and create a backtrace?

$ gdb nedit
(gdb) run
(gdb) bt

Paul

[Rod Smith (rodsmith)]

Paul,

I'm attaching the backtrace you wanted.

Note, however, that the problem has disappeared on the original system (a VirtualBox VM) that exhibited it. I had to do a fresh installation to re-create it. The problem disappeared after I rebooted the new installation. Deleting the ~/.nedit directory did NOT cause the problem to re-appear, nor did uninstalling and re-installing the nedit package.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

I believe this is a duplicate of bug 1415309.

Do you have one of the recommended packages xfonts-{100,75}dpi* installed, or did you install nedit without recommended packages?

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

No response, so I mark this bug as duplicate of bug 1415309.