Bug#548536: gnome-terminal: segfaults on startup

[sean finney]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.28.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

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after an upgrade this afternoon, starting gnome-terminal results
in the window popping up and immediately disappearing again.  closer
inspection reveals that gnome-terminal is segfaulting.  the last few
lines from strace:

read(16, 0x1d07190, 7980)               = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(3, 0x1b0d014, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}], 10, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
read(16, 0x1d07190, 7980)               = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
- --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---


i don't know if it's helpful, but:

==5154== Invalid read of size 8
==5154==    at 0x4E42419: ??? (in /usr/lib/libvte.so.9.9.0)
==5154==    by 0x4E61DF9: ??? (in /usr/lib/libvte.so.9.9.0)
==5154==    by 0x4E624DC: ??? (in /usr/lib/libvte.so.9.9.0)
==5154==    by 0x4E534D0: ??? (in /usr/lib/libvte.so.9.9.0)
==5154==    by 0x4E53C57: ??? (in /usr/lib/libvte.so.9.9.0)
==5154==    by 0x4E546C6: ??? (in /usr/lib/libvte.so.9.9.0)
==5154==    by 0x702883A: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.0)
==5154==    by 0x7028129: g_main_context_dispatch (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.0)
==5154==    by 0x702B987: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.0)
==5154==    by 0x702BE5C: g_main_loop_run (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.0)
==5154==    by 0x5402AF6: gtk_main (in /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.0)
==5154==    by 0x417522: ??? (in /usr/bin/gnome-terminal)
==5154==  Address 0x2d8 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd


let me know if you need any further info.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data           2.28.0-1   Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.28.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.9-26     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.0-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.0-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.26.0-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.10-1     library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                       1:0.22.0-2 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                     1.4.0-1         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                     2.28.0+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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