Firstly, I agree with http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359837 that this is a gtk bug, not a gedit bug.
A poster at the bugzilla thread said that "sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/<theme he was using>/" fixed it for him. But on my machine, "sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/" fixed the crash. The difference might be that, on my machine, gedit crashed no matter what theme I tried (I guess that gtk falls back onto /usr/share/icons/gnome/ for many icons in most themes). My best guess is that somewhere in the edgy upgrade a corrupt icon- theme.cache got written on my machine, and that this corrupt file triggers segfaults when gtk uses it. I suggest a bugfix version of the relevant package(s) be released with a postinst that re-recreates the icon-theme.cache where needed (or unconditionally). -- gedit cannot open any text file https://launchpad.net/bugs/69541 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
