Bug 238867 - Gnome-terminal crashes when using Xinerama on multiple monitors
Summary: Gnome-terminal crashes when using Xinerama on multiple monitors
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Behdad Esfahbod
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Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-05-03 15:36 UTC by Victoria
Modified: 2008-05-07 01:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-05-07 01:38:30 UTC
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Description Victoria 2007-05-03 15:36:13 UTC
Description of problem:
When I start gnome-terminal it crashes with the following output:

$ gnome-terminal 
The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 106 error_code 8 request_code 78 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
$

This only happens when I connect second monitor to my PC. When running with a
single monitor even with Xinerama option in the xorg.conf it's working fine.

Running that under gdb shows

$ gdb --args gnome-terminal --sync
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.6-8.fc7rh)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal --sync
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208518944 (LWP 3228)]
The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 138 error_code 8 request_code 78 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Program exited with code 01.
(gdb)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-terminal-2.18.0-1.fc7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect 2nd monitor
2. Run gnome-terminal
3.
  
Actual results:

Gnome terminal crashes

Expected results:

Running smoothly

Additional info:

Erm...

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 00:27:48 UTC
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no
longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are
flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer
maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now,
we will automatically close it.

If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or
rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change
the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version
or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.)

Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

The process we're following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp

We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-07 01:38:28 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was
first requested. As a result we are closing it.

If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora
version please feel free to reopen it against that version.

The process we're following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp


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