<p></p>
<p>I am now using Geany 1.38beta1 where I still get a similar error.</p>
<pre><code>Event 1000, Application Error
Faulting application name: geany.exe, version: 1.38.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: libcairo-2.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000050f63
Faulting process id: 0x5cc0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d7a7903172f154
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Geany\bin\geany.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Geany\bin\libcairo-2.dll
Report Id: a9229c8e-b105-4ee9-942b-d91cda28f20e
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
</code></pre>
<p>Event 1001, Windows Error Reporting</p>
<pre><code>Fault bucket 2283255357012743002, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: geany.exe
P2: 1.38.0.0
P3: 00000000
P4: libcairo-2.dll
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: c0000005
P8: 0000000000050f63
P9: 
P10: 

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER3093.tmp.dmp
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER3288.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER32A8.tmp.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER32B6.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER32D6.tmp.txt

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_geany.exe_26977968958f21542945692138e62ba1f1f38e_cac433d4_75b2f4f1-c7a7-445d-aad1-02184bc40436

Analysis symbol: 
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: a9229c8e-b105-4ee9-942b-d91cda28f20e
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: 301f7e832f0cf7bdffafc0a66640935a
Cab Guid: 0
</code></pre>
<p>Running "gdb geany.exe" in Msys2 shows (after a bunch of startup stuff) and doing a Copy as path from a windows style open file dialog:</p>
<pre><code>Thread 1 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffe8ac30f63 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libcairo-2.dll
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffe8ac30f63 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libcairo-2.dll
#1  0x00007ffe8aac0b34 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgdk-3-0.dll
#2  0x00007ffe8aac0d7d in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgdk-3-0.dll
#3  0x00007ffe8ca570e3 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgobject-2.0-0.dll
#4  0x00007ffe8ca6ee9b in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgobject-2.0-0.dll
#5  0x00007ffe8ca6efe8 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgobject-2.0-0.dll
#6  0x00007ffe8aab8b46 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgdk-3-0.dll
#7  0x00007ffe8aaa3382 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgdk-3-0.dll
#8  0x00007ffe8a7ec4f5 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libglib-2.0-0.dll
#9  0x00007ffe8a7e87bf in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libglib-2.0-0.dll
#10 0x00007ffe8a7eba46 in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libglib-2.0-0.dll
#11 0x00007ffe8a7ebf6c in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libglib-2.0-0.dll
#12 0x00007ffe8a1e269d in ?? () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgtk-3-0.dll
#13 0x00007ffe8caf90c7 in main_lib () from /c/Program Files/Geany/bin/libgeany-0.dll
#14 0x00007ff6cf951553 in ?? ()
#15 0x00007ff6cf9513b1 in ?? ()
#16 0x00007ff6cf9514c6 in ?? ()
#17 0x00007fff00f97034 in KERNEL32!BaseThreadInitThunk () from /c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL
#18 0x00007fff012c2651 in ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart () from /c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
#19 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb)
</code></pre>
<p>I will help sort this out any way I can. I do have a work around that avoids this issue, but the direct way is, of course, much faster.</p>

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