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Bug 324443 - "--working-directory" option is broken
"--working-directory" option is broken
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98715
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.13.x
Other Linux
: High critical
: ---
Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-12-19 00:13 UTC by Joseph Sacco
Modified: 2005-12-22 00:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
gdb log of gnome-terminal (9.48 KB, text/plain)
2005-12-19 15:16 UTC, Mamoru TASAKA 		Details

Description Joseph Sacco 2005-12-19 00:13:05 UTC 
Starting gnome-terminal with the "--working-directory" option hangs *all* running gnome-terminal windows. 

As of 2.13.0, gnome-terminal.desktop uses this option

     Exec=gnome-terminal --working-directory=%f

which leads to some unpleasant surprises.
Comment 1 Thierry Moisan 2005-12-19 14:47:08 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused it.
Can you provide us with one? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so.
Comment 2 Joseph Sacco 2005-12-19 15:13:30 UTC 
Thanks for the quick response.

Does your request mean that you cannot replicate this behavior in a GNOME 2.13.3 environment? This behavior has been observed by another member of the GARNOME team running a different OS [FC4] on a different platform [lintel].

I will see if I can capture a meaningful stack trace.

-Joseph
Comment 3 Mamoru TASAKA 2005-12-19 15:16:34 UTC 
Created attachment 56163 [details]
gdb log of gnome-terminal

Hello.
This bug is also reported to redhat bugzilla as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176029 .

I attached a gdb log of gnome-terminal for this bug.
This log was created by the following steps;

1. First launch the other terminal (such as uxterm)
2. In uxterm, execute "gdb gnome-terminal" and run gdb
3. In the launched gnome-terminal, execute
   "gnome-terminal --working-directory=~"

Results: both gnome-terminal freeze, and in uxterminal
glibc complaint about free() appears.

It seems that not only "--working-directory=~" but many other options
such as "-zoom=??" is also broken.
Comment 4 Olav Vitters 2005-12-22 00:51:04 UTC 
Thanks for the backtrace.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98715 ***