I reinstalled as instructed. At first, no effect. Then I restarted my X session, and the bug became a Heisenbug.
The first attempt at opening a file wrote the following to the console, and started bug-buddy (it did not do so last time): ** (gedit:5473): WARNING **: Could not load spinner rest icon sys:1: GtkWarning: gdk_draw_segments: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed The second attempt at opening a file worked without a fault. I was unable to do so more than once. The third attempt failed again, but just wrote the following to the console (i.e no lines about assertion failures our glibc double frees or corruptions): ** (gedit:5669): WARNING **: Could not load spinner rest icon sys:1: GtkWarning: gdk_draw_segments: assertion A later attempt failed again, this time with the following message: ** (gedit:5669): WARNING **: Could not load spinner rest icon *** glibc detected *** gedit: double free or corruption (out): 0x084d7830 *** The problem may be at a lower level than gedit itself. Because, in all those cases that bug-buddy was launched, bug-buddy itself spewed a lot of complaints to the console, of the form: ** (bug-buddy:5486): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Notification Area ** (bug-buddy:5486): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Volume Control etc. -- gedit cannot open any text file https://launchpad.net/bugs/69541 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
