Bug 8387

Summary: gedit crashes on empty files
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge>
Component: geditAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
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Description Stephen John Smoogen 2000-01-11 23:56:34 UTC 
From testers list... entered for consistency sake:

Trond Eivind Glomsr|d <teg.no>
2) gedit, which is totally broken in 6.1 (why hasn't this been fixed - the
shipped version is really, really broken and a simple upgrade fixes
it. The shipped version segfaults if started with a file as an
argument. This is in bugzilla, and has been so since 6.1 shipped) is still
just as broken in 6.2

Alan Cox


I reported these to the gnome people wekes ago

gedit newfilename
plugins-wordcount -> crash

(or almost any option when there is no file in the editor)
Comment 1 Stephen John Smoogen 2000-01-12 14:41:59 UTC 
Created attachment 53 [details]
strace of crash
Comment 2 Stephen John Smoogen 2000-01-12 14:43:59 UTC 
This bug seems to be also 5565 and a couple of others. My recommendation is to
consolidate bugs into this one, and either fix or drop from distribution as this
is a rather common bug to "replicate". My two cents only of course :)
Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-01-12 16:00:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5565 ***