nedit crashed with SIGSEGV in initialize()

[dlefevre]

nedit crashes when opened from either the command line or the applications menu in Ubuntu-MATE 16.04.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nedit 1:5.6a-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-63.84-generic 4.4.44
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-63-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Fri Feb 24 13:56:58 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-15 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
JournalErrors:
 Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
       turn off this notice.
 No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
ProcCmdline: nedit -server
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x565162788b99: movzwl 0x48(%rdx),%r13d
 PC (0x565162788b99) ok
 source "0x48(%rdx)" (0x00000048) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%r13d" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nedit
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6
 _XtCreateWidget () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6
Title: nedit crashed with SIGSEGV in _XtCreateWidget()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #1415309. However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because the problem is in a dependent package.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Please install one of the following packages and verify if the bug still appears:
xfonts-100dpi or xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi-transcoded or xfonts-75dpi-transcoded

Paul

[dlefevre (dlefevre)]

Sorry, I installed those font packages and I still get the Segfault.

[Bill (whiskey9cjo)]

Debian provides a patch for this in their nedit 5.6a-5 package called "improve_no_X_font_handling.patch".

It worked well for me. I've uploaded it.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "Patch from Debian nedit 5.6a-5 package" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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