packages: gnome-terminal-2.31.90-1.fc14.x86_64 vte-0.25.90-1.fc14.x86_64 dbus-1.3.2-0.1.885483.fc14.x86_64 If you have Assistive Technologies (accessibility/a11y) enabled, certain conditions will cause gnome-terminal to suddenly exit(1). For example, hitting 'Tab' after running 'alsamixer -c0' will cause gnome-terminal to suddenly exit. A much simpler reproducer: type (or cut-and-paste) ♥ into a gnome-terminal window, then hit backspace. A little debugging shows that gnome-terminal is being forcibly disconnected from dbus - at the time of the crash, gnome-terminal still has its end of the socket open, but dbus is closing its end of the socket as a result of getting DBUS_WATCH_ERROR|DBUS_WATCH_HANGUP from dbus_watch_handle. Further messing around with dbus-monitor --session shows that, under normal circumstances (like backspacing over the letter 'f'), pressing backspace results in (among other things) the following two signals: signal sender=:1.144 -> dest=(null destination) serial=369 path=/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/90; interface=org.a11y.atspi.Event.Object; member=TextCaretMoved [some data here] signal sender=:1.144 -> dest=(null destination) serial=370 path=/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/90; interface=org.a11y.atspi.Event.Object; member=TextChanged string "delete" int32 18 int32 1 variant string "f" struct { string ":1.144" object path "/org/a11y/atspi/accessible/root" } When backspacing over the '♥', the TextCaretMoved signal is sent, but the subsequent TextChange/"delete" signal never happens; instead the following signal is: signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=42 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string ":1.144" string ":1.144" string "" which indicates gnome-terminal being thrown off the bus, probably for attempting to send malformed utf8. I'm guessing (or, rather, halfline guessed, and it makes sense because he's far more clever than I am) that only the last byte of the '♥' sequence is being sent, which is invalid utf8, which would cause dbus to reject the message. So.. I guess this might actually be a vte/a11y bug, but I don't know how the gnome-terminal/a11y code is structured, so I'm leaving it here.
Filed upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627591
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