Bug 637978

Summary: gnome-terminal crashes at random
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Excerpt from /var/log/messages showing the crash. The Python program that went down was yum. none

Description Horst H. von Brand 2010-09-27 21:45:26 UTC
Created attachment 450048 [details]
Excerpt from /var/log/messages showing the crash. The Python program that went down was yum.

Description of problem:
Running Gnome. I usually have two gnome-terminals open, one with some 8 tabs (local) and the other (remote) normally with just one.

On the local one I run a root shell (updating the system via yum, sundry sysadminning like checking if outgoing mail did in fact leave) and a few other local shells (getting git, kernel sources; local work; getting/compiling Stone Soup). On the remote I've an ssh running to a remote system, and a screen(1) there. I usually start xemacs and xpdf from some of the "local work" tabs.

When I leave the machine for longer time (say an hour or so for a meeting or classes) the screensaver kicks in. Sometimes in this situation (longer absences, never short ones) I came back and the gnome-terminals are both gone.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-2.31.91-1.fc15.x86_64
yum-3.2.28-8.fc15.noarch
python-2.7-11.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Seems to happen to yum when left running on its own under screensaver (I usually start it before going away for a while, as its disk activity makes the system nearly unusable when mass getting/updating)

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Comment 1 Horst H. von Brand 2010-11-30 14:44:06 UTC
Hasn't happened again. Seems to have been due to kernel OOM misbehaving.