Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86170
gnome-terminal occasionally crashes on resize
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:05 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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. Additional info:
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.)
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.
Any one in rawhide (.20 or higher probably). There isn't an errata for it, unfortunately.