Bug#532173: Opens new tabs in unexpected paths (seems it opens in the workpath of the program running)

[Daniel Leidert]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.26.2-1
Severity: important

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This problem occurs since the update to 2.26.2-1 and it disappears by
downgrading to 2.24.

If I have a tab open in which no program is currently running and I open
a new tab, the tab is opened in the same path as the current tab. But if
e.g. `man foo' is running in the first tab and I open a new tab, it
opens in `/usr/share/man'. If I have a root session (via su) in the first
tab and I open a new one, it opens in `/'. This is really bad and I
can't think of, that this is the intended behavior. Up to 2.24 it g-t
opened new tabs in the same path the current open tab points to.

I'm not sure if this behaviour can lead to a security issue so I report
this as important. Please adjust the severity if necessary.

Regards, Daniel


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.24.3-3      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.26.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.1-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.9-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.26.2-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.20.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.26.0-1      The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.24.1-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.16.2-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.24.2-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.10-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.20.1-1    Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.2.1-1     X11 client-side library
ii  rarian-compat [scrollkeepe 0.8.1-2       Rarian is a documentation meta-dat

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.3-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                          2.24.0-2   Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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