Bug 86170 - gnome-terminal occasionally crashes on resize
Summary: gnome-terminal occasionally crashes on resize
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-15 16:55 UTC by Yaron Minsky
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-15 18:01:26 UTC
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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.

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.


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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.



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