From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031110 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: When adding a profile via the menu, if the profile name contains the @ symbol or dots ".", gnome-terminal crashes. The profile IS added however, shows up in the Edit list when accessed later. I'll attach what the bug buddy says if it helps. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select 'File - New Profile' 2. Add a profile with a name such as "foo@host" or "host.foo.bar" 3. Click 'Create' Actual Results: gnome-terminal crashes, however the profile is created. Expected Results: No crash, the profile editor should show up. Additional info:
Created attachment 97237 [details] the debugging details from bug buddy
Known upstream, see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125091
Created attachment 97717 [details] gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-escape.patch The patch Frederic Crozat submitted to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122349 is also the solution for *this* bug.
The patch is present in 2.5.1-1 in rawhide.