pindakoe Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Since some time Gedit refuses to start, either when opening a text file, or the prorgram as such. I get the following error when starting it from from the commandline: >> gedit Gtk-ERROR **: file ../../gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c: line 2248 (get_uri_shortname_for_display): assertion failed: (name != NULL) aborting... >> I have no clue what this is trying to tell me. All other programs seem to run well (epiphany, abiword, gnumeric, gaim to just mention those in the gnome/gtk camp). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Should be triggered by a common Gnome bug (not just Mandriva's) which was cured since early September ( I can recall some "gnome-desktop-recently-used-apps" patch needed)- I guess it has been also applied in Mandriva... did you try updating Gnome/gedit to the newest revision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted February 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Thanks scarecrow. This occurs with gedit 2.16.0-1mdv. I have just verified that the problem is user specific (should have done that before posting). It turns out that all users except me can normally work with Gedit. Obviously I am the only user who want to use it.... This proves that it is (likely) not related to the program 9or librariers, but to some setting which is wrong for me. Sugegstions where to look are very welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Sounds like a borked setting in your gconf configuration to me. Remove the /home/username/.gconf/apps/gedit-2 file and check again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) Thanks arctic that solved it (I think -- I was thinking in same direction and deleted half a dozen other files in .gnome2 and .gconfg that seemed to be gedit config files. Anyway all is well. Edited February 8, 2007 by pindakoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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