Possible issue running gedit on Mac since Homebrew update around 3rd of May 2023.
After a recent update of Homebrew packages from 3rd of May 2023 (here the relevant extract of brew list -lt)
drwxr-xr-x 3 frankzeyda admin 96 May 3 23:47 gedit
drwxr-xr-x 3 frankzeyda admin 96 May 3 20:21 poppler
drwxr-xr-x 3 frankzeyda admin 96 May 3 20:21 tepl
drwxr-xr-x 3 frankzeyda admin 96 May 3 20:21 libgedit-gtksourceview
drwxr-xr-x 3 frankzeyda admin 96 May 3 20:21 libxml2
gedit seems not to start anymore on my MacBook Pro (Apple M1 Max, 32 GB, Ventura 13.1.1 (a)).
Here are some more details. Firstly, starting gedit
, i.e., from the Terminal produces the following output:
(gedit:8990): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 14:00:05.946: cannot register existing type 'GtkSourceStyleSchemeManager'
(gedit:8990): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 14:00:05.946: cannot add private field to invalid (non-instantiatable) type '<invalid>'
(gedit:8990): GLib-CRITICAL **: 14:00:05.946: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
(gedit:8990): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 14:00:05.946: g_object_new_with_properties: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
Secondly, no gedit application window pops up. Neither does any segmentation fault or crash seem to occur (hence I cannot attach a stack trace or similar) - the application merely stops responding until forcefully terminated.
I wonder of other Mac users with a similar OS version may be able to reproduce and/or confirm this behavior. I must say that I encountered sporadic crashes of gedit (about 50/50 chance it will start and not crash during operation) on Mac even before the above-mentioned update - I can elaborate on this if needed.
Best wishes, and let me know if you need further info.
Frank