I just started experiencing this issue today, for whatever reason.
Updates a couple of days ago, but I use Gedit many times during the
course of a day for html and writing papers/journal and so everything
was working fine after last update.
I have opened and edited files I am experiencing trouble
I always install kexec as part of a new install b/c I appreciate the
fast reboot when things hang (usually with playing mp3's continuously).
I do dual boot the current ubuntu release with the previous ubuntu release, as
well as a winbloze partition for those moments I just have to... so I do
shu