I am experiencing the same issue (I guess). I run the standard Hardy 8.04 with
Gnome. Everything is standard, I keep my system up-to-date and no visual
effects are enabled.
The save/save as dialog box causes any application to crash, the key shortcuts
work fine though.
/var/crash is empty.
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Have you enabled apport? In /etc/default/apport, there should be
'enabled=1'. Once enabled, try to replicate the crash. There should be a
file in /var/crash then, double click on it and apport will file a new
bug for that.
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File-save dialog crashes host application under openbox
Blimey, after googling a bit, I found this page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5124024
And the solution works! I removed any suspicious bookmarks and now everything
is working correctly again.
But, this still needs to be fixed properly. I hope this is tracked somewhere...
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Will do. Thanks JN
Have you enabled apport? In /etc/default/apport, there should be
'enabled=1'. Once enabled, try to replicate the crash. There should be a
file in /var/crash then, double click on it and apport will file a new
bug for that.
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File-save dialog crashes host application
Sorry, should have added I'm running Gnome UI for Hardy 8.04
uname gives
Linux acer-jn-u 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
Be glad to supply other info.
I can sometimes work around with Ctrl-Alt-Bsp and relogin. Other times
have to reboot. Restarting the app
I have had many crashes of this sort over the last few days. /var/crash is
EMPTY -- this is a really nasty one. It affects (for me so far)
Firefox
Thunderbird (trying to attach files)
OpenOffice (writer, presentations)
gedit
The symptom is that the whole application crashes i.e., when composing
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