What I expected to happen was...:
The chest would break kicking the player out of the gui screen
What actually happened was...:
player immediately left the server
Apparently server crashed and had to be restarted.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place chest
2. have another player look inside chest
3. in creative* break chest
*may work in survival too.
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Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.
This was probably in relation of the bug where blowing up the chest while viewing it cause the same problem, you should mark it as resolved (I haven't had the chance to test it but i'm sure that it's the same bug.)
This may be a relation to the blowing up chest issue while viewing it.