Bug#249908: gnome-terminal: crashes when selecting new profile with spacebar

Jason Martens Jason Martens <me@jasonmartens.com>, 249908-quiet@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:00:38 -0500


Hey,
   Thanks for the reply.  I installed a brand new system using unstable 
(with gnome-terminal 2.6.1) and I am still having the issue.

Here are the steps to reproduce my problem.

1. Create a new terminal profile.  The other profile I created is called 
"HP-UX" and the only thing changed from the default term is the use of 
Control-H for the backspace key (required for HP-UX shell. boooo).
2. Open a new gnome-terminal window.
3. Press alt-t for the terminal menu, arrow over and down to select the 
"HP-UX" terminal profile,  and when it is highlighted, press the spacebar.

At this point on my system, I cannot interact with any windows on my 
desktop (GNOME).  I can see the windows continue to be updated, but I 
cannot use any menus, right-click or anything.  To regain control of the 
system, it is necessary to log in from another system (via ssh) and kill 
the gnome-terminal process. 

Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have tried to reproduce the bug you reported on my machine, but
>really wasn't able to. It seems to work fine with the latest
>GNOME 2.6 packages from unstable.
>
>I'm currently running gnome-terminal 2.6.1-2 and have libgtk2.0-0
>2.4.1-4 installed. Could you explain with more details how you can
>make it happen? Something like each step, each click, etc? It would
>really help. Another thing I would ask you to do, if possible, is
>to check if it still happens with the newest versions. I've noticed
>you don't run unstable on your machine. For this, you could download
>the packages from unstable or wait until they progress into testing.
>
>Regards,
>
>  
>