Package: gnome-terminal
Severity: normal
Version: 2.0.1
Synopsis: gnome-terminal crashes
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal
Bugzilla-Component: general
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.0.4)

Description:
Description of Problem:
While executing any random command (eg. it has crashed while using the
"ls -l", "dir", "emacs", at any random time pretty much), gnome-terminal
crashes.  However, right before it crashes, my harddrive begins to run
like crazy, and as I monitor the swap space, it fills up almost
entirely.

I have 512Megs of RAM, and my swap space is about the same size. 

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1.  open up gnome-terminal
2.  type commands, eg. ls -l, dir, etc.
3.  if you are lucky, once every now and then gnome-terminal will
crash.

Actual Results:
gnome-terminal crashes, but right before it does, the harddrive swaps
like crazy.

Expected Results:
it should not crash.

How often does this happen?
randomly

Additional Information:




Debugging Information:

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

[New Thread 1024 (LWP 1686)]
0x409c6369 in __wait4 () at __wait4:-1
	in __wait4

+ Trace 28913

------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-10-16 14:07 -------

The original reporter (efhilton@alum.mit.edu) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, hp@redhat.com.