Bug 176029

Summary: Cannot start more than one gnome-terminal
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: rawhideCC: angben, davej, dm, dravet, gczarcinski, ilya.konstantinov, jlaska, john.ellson, mike, mtasaka, reuben-redhatbugzilla, sundaram, wriede, yaneti
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Fixed In Version: 2.13.0-2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Clyde E. Kunkel 2005-12-17 21:02:33 UTC
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Description of problem:
When trying to start a second gnome terminal during a gnome desktop session, the second terminal never comes up and the first terminal freezes and has to be forced to exit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-2.13.0-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start the first gnome-terminal by clicking on the menu entry
2. start the second gnome-terminal by clicking on the menu entry
3.
  

Actual Results:  The second terminal never starts, and the first terminal is frozen.

Expected Results:  Second terminal should start and be usable and the first terminal should also be usable.  Should be able to start several terminals.

Additional info:

Deleting the --working-directory=%f parameter in the invocation fixes the problem.

Not sure where this began, noticed on a fresh net install of rawhide of 16 Dec, and on another rawhide upgraded FC5T1 install.  It is not happening on another rawhide install that I have kept going since FC2 days.

Comment 1 Mamoru TASAKA 2005-12-18 10:53:37 UTC
Created attachment 122375 [details]
gdb log of gnome-terminal

My problem on gnome-terminal is similar to this bug, so I attach
my gdb log for this bug.

The attached gdb log was created by the following steps:
1. First launch the other terminal (such as uxterm).
2. In uxterm, execute "gdb gnome-terminal" and run gdb
   ( then one gnome-terminal is launched).
3. In the launched gnome-terminal, execute 
    "gnome-terminal --working-directory=~"

Results: both gnome-terminal sessons freezes, and in uxterm terminal
glibc claiming messages about free() appears.

It seems that gnome-terminal cannot deal with the option
"--working-directory=???", as Clyde reported.

Comment 2 Mamoru TASAKA 2005-12-19 06:51:51 UTC
Not only the option "--with-working-directory=foo" but many other
options such as "--show(hide)-menu-bars" "--zoom=??" and so on are also
broken (if used in second or later gnome-terminal).

By the way,  Joseph Sacco reported this bug to upstream as
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324443 .

Comment 3 Benjmain Youngdahl 2005-12-19 14:36:58 UTC
*** Bug 176039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Mamoru TASAKA 2005-12-28 15:12:24 UTC
The upstream bug noted in the comment 2 was marked as a duplicate of
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98715,
and in the gnome bug above (98715),  it is commented that Ilya Konstantinov
posted the REVERSE patch to RedHat bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176642
to fix this problem temporarily.


Comment 5 Mike Chambers 2005-12-31 15:06:15 UTC
This problem still exists on a rawhide install as of this morning.

Comment 6 John Ellson 2006-01-05 19:21:58 UTC
Has fix gone in somewhere?

I can't reproduce the problem today, but I'm still running gnome-terminal-2.13.0-1

Comment 7 John Ellson 2006-01-05 20:10:32 UTC
Forget #6   Its still there.  I think I confused things by upgrading glibc.

Comment 8 Christopher Aillon 2006-01-05 20:51:34 UTC
*** Bug 176729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Christopher Aillon 2006-01-05 20:53:20 UTC
*** Bug 176642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Christopher Aillon 2006-01-05 20:54:19 UTC
Fixed in rawhide.