Bug 86170

Summary:	gnome-terminal occasionally crashes on resize
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Yaron Minsky <yminsky>
Component:	gnome-terminal	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	tao
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Description Yaron Minsky 2003-03-15 16:55:36 UTC

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Description of problem:
Occasionally, when gnome-terminal is resized, especially when it's busy doing
something, it will crash.  It's not enough to be cat-ing stuff to the screen,
and I don't know precisely what the cause is.  But pine can cause it to happen.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start up pine with a bunch of messages and go to the list view
2. Drag the corner of the screen around (i.e., resizing it.)  Pine will
repeatedly catch up, resizing the pine screen.  After a few minutes of this it
will probably crash.  It may literally take 5 minutes, although in practice this
happens to me annoyingly often.


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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-03-15 18:01:26 UTC

Should be fixed in any newer version of vte.

(One way to make it less annoying if you don't want to upgrade is to run your 
terminals as "gnome-terminal --disable-factory" so they don't all crash at once.)

Comment 2 Yaron Minsky 2003-03-15 18:42:00 UTC

Which version of VTE is supposed to be fixed?  I got the up2date upgrade to
0.8.19-2, and the bug definitely persists in that version.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2003-03-15 18:58:35 UTC

Any one in rawhide (.20 or higher probably). There isn't an errata for it, 
unfortunately.