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Bug 95525 - gnome-terminal crashes upon startup, on 8 bpp vesa XFree driver
gnome-terminal crashes upon startup, on 8 bpp vesa XFree driver
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-11 17:00 UTC by Jaakko R
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Jaakko R 2002-10-11 17:00:31 UTC 
Description:
Description of Problem:
gnome-terminal crashes upon startup with 8bpp vesa XFree driver, 16 bpp
is ok.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. 8 bpp vesa XFree driver,XFree and Gnome from RedHat 8.0 
2. Launch gnome-terminal
3. 

Actual Results:
Segmentation fault.

Expected Results:
Get to the prompt.

How often does this happen?
Always on 8bpp, gnome-terminal works ok on 16 bpp.  Using vesa XFree
driver.

Additional Information:
strace gnome-terminal

gets to

open("/home/xxx/.pangox_aliases", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such...
-- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault)
and a few lines more

So this might be a pango or XFree bug as well.

Debugging Information:

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

(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 8192 (LWP 2718)]
0x4097c789 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6

+ Trace 28654

Thread 1 (Thread 8192 (LWP 2718))

  • #0 wait4
    from /lib/libc.so.6
  • #1 __DTOR_END__
    from /lib/libc.so.6
  • #2 waitpid
    from /lib/libpthread.so.0
  • #3 libgnomeui_module_info_get
    from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
  • #4 __pthread_sighandler
    from /lib/libpthread.so.0
  • #5 <signal handler called>
  • #6 XftDrawCharSpec
    from /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
  • #7 vte_terminal_draw_cells
    from /usr/lib/libvte.so.2
  • #8 vte_terminal_draw_row
    from /usr/lib/libvte.so.2
  • #9 vte_terminal_paint
    from /usr/lib/libvte.so.2
  • #10 vte_terminal_expose
    from /usr/lib/libvte.so.2
  • #11 _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #12 g_type_class_meta_marshal
    from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
  • #13 g_closure_invoke
    from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
  • #14 signal_emit_unlocked_R
    from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
  • #15 g_signal_emit_valist
    from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
  • #16 gtk_signal_emit
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #17 gtk_widget_event_internal
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #18 gtk_main_do_event
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #19 gdk_window_process_updates_internal
    from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #20 gdk_window_process_all_updates
    from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #21 gtk_container_idle_sizer
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #22 g_idle_dispatch
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #23 g_main_dispatch
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #24 g_main_context_dispatch
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #25 g_main_context_iterate
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #26 g_main_loop_run
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #27 gtk_main
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #28 main
  • #29 __libc_start_main
    from /lib/libc.so.6
  • #0 wait4
    from /lib/libc.so.6 






Comment 1


Havoc Pennington





          2002-10-11 17:41:06 UTC
        



https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75697

Looks like an Xft bug to me.






Comment 2


Nalin Dahyabhai





          2002-11-26 04:35:15 UTC
        



Bug with same reporter and summary has been closed at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75697, closing here.