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[Brad Figg <brad.figg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  gedit usually sleeps indefinitely when launched by unity-2d-places

Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In a unity-2d session on an Oneiric i386 system with gedit
  3.1.1-0ubuntu4 and unity-2d/unity-2d-places 3.8.10-0ubuntu2, running
  gedit from unity-2d-places (by clicking the home button, typing in
  gedit, and clicking Text Editor in the search results; or by pressing
  Alt+F2, typing in gedit, and pressing enter) almost always results in
  gedit sleeping indefinitely and never becoming usable or creating any
  visible windows:

  ek@Zim:~$ ps ax | grep -v grep | grep gedit
   1911 ?        Sl     0:00 gedit

  When this happens, I see the gedit icon appear in the unity-2d
  launcher for a short time, but then the icon disappears (and gedit
  continues running nonfunctionally in the background). Usually, gedit
  can be killed by SIGTERM; occasionally, it seems that SIGKILL is
  required. On rare occasion, gedit runs successfully when launched in
  this way.

  When I run gedit from a Terminal window (by running the command:
  gedit), it almost always works correctly, but on rare occasion, it
  sleeps indefinitely (in these cases, ps shows it as having state Sl+
  rather than Sl, but I don't think that's a relevant difference). In
  these cases, SIGINT (from Ctrl+C) and SIGTERM have always been
  successful at terminating it, but I have only gotten the problem to
  occur a few times when running gedit from the Terminal.

  When I run gedit from unity-2d-launcher (I am able to pin it to the
  launcher when it is running from the Terminal), it also works OK. I
  have not run it from the launcher frequently enough to know if it ever
  fails when launched that way, though I suppose it probably does.

  I strongly suspect that this is due to a deadlock. I would be pleased
  to attempt to furnish any further information required for the
  investigation of this bug.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gedit 3.1.1-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-4.5-generic 3.0.0-rc6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-4-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jul 11 13:15:44 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110705.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: gedit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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