Bug 146893 – gnome-terminal crashes on strartup

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Bug 146893 - gnome-terminal crashes on strartup


Summary:	gnome-terminal crashes on strartup


Status:	RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Product:	vte
Classification:	Core
Component:	general
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	VTE Maintainers
QA Contact:	Nalin Dahyabhai

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2004-06-25 13:49 UTC by fire7earth
Modified:	2005-09-30 19:28 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.5/2.6

Description fire7earth 2004-07-09 12:28:05 UTC

Distribution: Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
Package: gnome-terminal
Severity: normal
Version: GNOME2.6. unspecified
Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc
Synopsis: gnome-terminal crashes on strartup
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal
Bugzilla-Component: docs
Bugzilla-Version: unspecified
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.6.0)
Description:
Description of the crash:
When starting the terminal I get ths error: The Application
"gnome-terminal" has quit unexpectedly.

Steps to reproduce the crash:
1. Attempt to start gnome-terminal
2. get error message

Expected Results:
The terminal should start.

How often does this happen?
every time I try to start it

Additional Information:



Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal'

(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -150750496 (LWP 6093)]
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols
found)...0x00aa9402 in ?? ()

+ Trace 48247

Thread 1 (Thread -150750496 (LWP 6093))

#0 ??
#1 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#2 libgnomeui_module_info_get
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 g_str_hash
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 g_hash_table_lookup
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 g_quark_from_string
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 _vte_table_free
from /usr/lib/libvte.so.4
#8 _vte_table_add
from /usr/lib/libvte.so.4
#9 _vte_matcher_add
from /usr/lib/libvte.so.4
#10 vte_terminal_set_emulation
from /usr/lib/libvte.so.4
#11 vte_terminal_get_emulation
from /usr/lib/libvte.so.4
#12 g_type_create_instance
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 g_object_new_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 g_object_newv
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 g_object_new_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 g_object_new
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 vte_terminal_new
from /usr/lib/libvte.so.4
#18 terminal_widget_new
#19 terminal_screen_get_type
#20 g_type_create_instance
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#21 g_object_new_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#22 g_object_newv
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#23 g_object_new_valist
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#24 g_object_new
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#25 terminal_screen_new
#26 terminal_app_new_terminal
#27 terminal_skey_do_popup
#28 main
#0 ??





------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-07-09 08:28 -------


Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other".
Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "gnome-terminal".
   Setting to default milestone for this product, '---'
The original reporter of this bug does not have
   an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved
   it here, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
   Previous reporter was fire7earth@yahoo.com.
Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.

Comment 1 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2004-07-24 20:45:17 UTC

This stack trace is broken, as vte_terminal_get_emulation does not call
vte_terminal_set_emulation...

Moving to vte, as this is deep inside it: maybe nalin knows where it broke.

Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2005-09-30 19:28:27 UTC

No new information here and no duplicates. Closing as INCOMPLETE.