Bug#525472: libvte9: gnome-terminal crashes with 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'

[Scott MacKenzie]

Package: libvte9
Version: 1:0.22.5-1
Followup-For: Bug #525472

The problem only recently appeared following upgrade of libvte9 
My solution was to initiate an upgrade of libgtk2.0-0

The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue'.
  (Details: serial 644 error_code 2 request_code 94 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I first upgraded libvte-common to match the libvte9 version without any 
change to the problem (the upgrade also removed package libvte4.) 

I followed with an upgrade to libgtk2.0-0 which triggered the following 
changes, most of which are probably irrelevant;

libtasn1-3 0.3.6-1  ->  libtasn1-3 2.3-1
libgnutls26 2.6.4-2  ->  libgnutls26 2.8.5-2
libkrb5-3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12  ->  libkrb5-3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
libkrb5support0 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12  ->  libkrb5support0 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
libk5crypto3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12  ->  libk5crypto3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
libgssapi-krb5-2 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12  ->  libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1
libglib2.0-dev 2.20.0-2  ->  libglib2.0-dev 2.22.2-2
libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2  ->  libglib2.0-0 2.22.2-2
libgail-common 2.14.7-5  ->  libgail-common 2.18.3-1
libgail18 2.14.7-5  ->  libgail18 2.18.3-1
libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny2  -> libcups2 1.4.1-4
gtk-engines-pixbuf 2.14.7-5  ->  gtk2-engines-pixbuf 2.18.3-1
libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-5  ->  libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1

I took an strace but did not make a correct backtrace (I forgot to set a breakpoint, oops)

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5-tigermpx-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libvte9 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.22.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1                2.4.1-2    generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                  2.3.7-2    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.0-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.14.7-5   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libncurses5                   5.7-2      shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.22.4-3   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libvte-common                 1:0.12.2-4 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 

libvte9 recommends no packages.

libvte9 suggests no packages.

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