Bug#501642: gedit only starts once, then just exits when started for a bit, then hangs

[Marc Lehmann]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.22.3-1
Severity: important


I can start gedit *once*, after which it opens a window.

Exiting gedit causes the window to be closed, and the gedit process goes away.

After that, trying to start gedit immediately exits the process for a few times.

After that, all further invocations of gedit just hang in connect:

   connect(13, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596"}, 110

The socket exists and is opwned by dbus-daemon:

   unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     18331    4422/dbus-daemon    /tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596
   unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTING    0        -                   /tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596
   unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTING    0        -                   /tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596
   unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTING    0        -                   /tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596
   unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTING    0        -                   /tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596
   unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTING    0        -                   /tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596
   unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTING    0        -                   /tmp/gedit-svn.root.3447731596

deleting the socket, or killing dbus both makes gedit start again.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.16.1-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gedit-common               2.22.3-1      official text editor of the GNOME 
ii  iso-codes                  3.0-1         ISO language, territory, currency,
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                   1:2.4.41-1    Extended attribute shared library
hi  libc6                      2.7-12        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-6       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libenchant1c2a             1.3.0-2       a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libgconf2-4                2.16.1-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-4    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.10-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview2.0-0      2.4.0-2       shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.4-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-7     X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  python                     2.5.2-1       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-glade2              2.12.1-6      GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gobject             2.14.2-1      Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2                2.12.1-6      Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-gtksourceview2      2.2.0-1+b1    Python bindings for the GtkSourceV
ii  python-support             0.7.6         automated rebuilding support for p
ii  python2.5                  2.5.2-8       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-13     A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  libgnomevfs2-bin              1:2.22.0-4 GNOME Virtual File System (support
pn  python-gnome2                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  zenity                        2.14.3-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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