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)
Created attachment 53 [details] strace of crash
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 :)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5565 ***