GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 400452
crashes when exiting screensaver.
Last modified: 2007-01-25 22:07:29 UTC
Distribution: Debian 4.0 Package: gnome-terminal Severity: Normal Version: GNOME2.14.3 2.14.2 Gnome-Distributor: Debian Synopsis: crashes when exiting screensaver. Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: 2.14.2 BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.14.1) Description: Description of the crash: This time Gnome-terminal crashed when redrawing after screensaver (or sometime while I was asleep). ps confirms that bug-buddy launched about the same time the screen saver was deactivated. I had 6 terminal windows, one of which had 3 tabs. No programs should have been actively writing to the screen except perhaps one running instance of top and any error messages from any gui applications. I had 1 gnome-terminal instance, with two additional threads, one started on Jan 13, 3 seconds after the main process, and one started a on Jan 17 Gnome-terminal crashes when doing nothing unusual are common, they happen every couple weeks. In this case, some of the windows had been open for 11 days. Since the uptime is 15 days, this is not the first crash since reboot. Since gnome-terminal uses a single process to control all windows, individual windows don't crash, they all crash simultaneously as well as taking out most applications which were launched from a terminal window (which is most of them). The inclusion of bug buddy provided a major saving grace: Since the process is not officially terminated until I finish writing this bug report, I have had a chance to pull up 8 xmlcopyeditor, 1 oocalc, and 2 emacs windows and save my work before they are killed. One thing that was unusual for this session (I.E. spererate bug) is that a day or two earlier, the second tab in the three tab window (two open at the time) hung. The tab was closed and a new tab was opened which inherited the hung state of the earlier tab but a third tab was opened which was not hung. Gnome terminal was used very heavily. Steps to reproduce the crash: Use gnome terminal for an extended period of time. It will die with what apperas to b more frequency and definitely greater consequences than xterm. Expected Results: How often does this happen? Every week or two. 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) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1493059904 (LWP 30270)] [New Thread -1515050064 (LWP 7981)] [New Thread -1505223760 (LWP 30276)] 0xa77aa231 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
+ Trace 105028
Thread 1 (Thread -1493059904 (LWP 30270))
------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2007-01-25 01:09 ------- Unknown version 2.14.2 in product gnome-terminal. Setting version to "2.14.x".
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