GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 156627
impossible to launch gnome-terminal for unknown reasons
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Distribution: Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Package: gnome-terminal Severity: blocker Version: GNOME2.6. unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc Synopsis: impossible to launch gnome-terminal for unknown reasons Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: unspecified BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.6.0) Description: Description of the crash: Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. launching terminal 2. 3. Expected Results: launch terminal window How often does this happen? always 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 -151132320 (LWP 3952)] (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)...0x003bd7a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
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Thread 1 (Thread -151132320 (LWP 3952))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-10-27 15:32 ------- 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 yirkoon@free.fr. 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.
This happened deep inside fontconfig, which is odd. Can you try updating/reinstalling the fontconfig you are using, and or try to get a full stack trace for this crash---instructions on how to do that (you'll need to use gdb) can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/getting-traces.cgi This is in the spirit of bug 122088...
simple dupe finder lead me here and I believe this is the same bug. I'm running Fedora Core 3 and nothing self-compiled. Version information of things I see in the stacktrace are: gnome-terminal 2.7.3-1 fontconfig-2.2.3-5 libxml2 2.6.16-3 vte 0.11.11-6 glib2 2.4.7-1.1 I can reproduce it easily but I'm afraid I can't tell what caused this. Earlier today everything worked. I didn't update any gnome/fontconfig/gtk related stuff during that time (only iptables was updated by yum). Initially only gnome-terminal failed to start but now not a single gnome program runs (other gtk2 programs like Firefox & gaim run just fine). I assume that this is not a problem in gnome-terminal but somewhere in the libraries (be it the gnome libs, fontconfig or even libxml2 ...) but I can't reassign this.
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Thread 1 (Thread 182894218688 (LWP 3711))
I tried un-prelinking my system (prelink is installed by default on FC3) and then it works again! So add the following step to "How to reproduce": 0. Run prelink on your whole system (haven't tried to narrow it down) (btw, this all happens on x86_64)
Hm. I guess this is NOTGNOME, then. Joachim, could you report this on the FC bugzilla?
I've reported it to FC Buzilla (one number too late, 'though ;-) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139001 It seems I may not set it to NOTGNOME, so I'll have to leave that to you.