GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 88362
Gedit 2.0.1 crashes when started by normal user
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: Whenever a normal user starts Gedit(v2.0.1), the program immediately crashes. However, root (superuser) can run the program with no problem. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Simply start program as normal user 2. 3. Actual Results: Gedit segfaults almost immediately Expected Results: Gedit should open How often does this happen? Everytime normal user tries to run Gedit Additional Information: I ran it as a normal user from the command line and received the following message: (gedit:13706): XML-CRITICAL **: xmlParseEntityRef: no name (gedit:13706): XML-CRITICAL **: xmlParseEntityRef: no name I have attached the backtrace to this bug report. I was unable to paste it into this section.
Created attachment 9903 [details] Backtrace of Gedit crash
snorp: it looks like a problem with gnome-recent. Could you please try to give a look at it?
I would be very happy to try to help out if I knew exactly what to do. I simply downloaded the tarball for Gedit 2.0.1, and ran configure, make & make install. That's about the extent of my current knowledge. If you can tell me exactly what to do, I'll be glad to do it.
Argh. It looks to me that the "&" is causing a problem in libbonoboui. I will fix this.
Michael: Is it my responsibility to escape the XML before calling bonobo_ui_component_set_translate()? I am guessing that it is.....
This bug should be fixed in CVS head
I tested with sun beta 2 build 6 package. Source taken from gnome-2-0 branch dated "Tue Aug 27 14:57:39 BST 2002". Gedit crashes after few minutes of usage. I am not able to reproduce very frequently this crash.
prabu: you should file a new bug report for it. Could you please add a backtrace of the crash?
as it is optimized build, stack trace doesn't have any useful information.
Without a stack trace I have no possibilities to fix this bug since I cannot reproduce it. BTW, please, file it in a new bug report.