After emerging packages in Gentoo Linux I find that about 75% of the time gnome-terminal crashes out when the ebuild is finishing up. The packages are actually getting installed so it must be something toward the end of the builds. The window literally just disappears without a trace. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge <fill in the blank> 2. watch gnome-terminal disappear 3. Actual Results: gnome-terminal crashed Expected Results: showed the end of the ebuild Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-openmosix) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-openmosix i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt opengl mozilla X gtk gtk2 tcltk svga gnome aalib -alsa"
trying to get a backtrace or similar would be helpful try running a clean gnome-terminal from xterm and see if theres any error output etc.
Created attachment 21987 [details, diff] pango-layout-iter-char.patch Most probably pango bug. Crashes with mc, too, and very often. Please test with attached patch. Another testcase from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116108 To reproduce: 1. Start a new gnome-terminal 2. Create another tab (this is required so that gnome-terminal shows the tabbar) 3. Run: foo="abcdefghhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" 4. Run: echo -ne "\016\033]0;$foo$foo$foo$foo$foo$foo\007";sleep 2 5. gnome-terminal crashes
I have many crashes of gnome-terminal too.. It happens with Midnight commander when coping file (F5), not every time but very often. I have normaly atleast 10 opened consoles and these crashes made me crazy.. The file is copied successfuly, but all my connections to other machines goes to hell !! Think of reopening 10 ssh connections...agrrhh... Sometimes crashes happens for other reasons but from most of them are in MC.. These happened from the days I started to use gnome-terminal.. up to my current -> x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.4.2
can't reproduce & no progress. reopen if this is still a problem.
