Bug#696348: gnome-shell restarts when closing gnome-terminal

[Harvey Kelly]

Hi again,

A few days ago I had a bit of time, so did a complete re-install of
Wheezy (using a weekly build iso - the previous installation on this
machine was an upgrade from Squeeze), and I removed the contents of
my /home/$USER/.config folder - so far, three days and counting, and
I've yet to encounter the problem of closing gnome-terminal causing
gnome-shell to restart.

For completeness sake the machine I'm using is a Compaq Presario CQ70.

I also have a Dell laptop, but that never experienced the problem at
all. That too is a Squeeze -> Wheezy machine, with identical packages
installed to the Presario, with packages even upgraded at same time.

On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 19:20 +0000, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 01:22:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > I can’t reproduce this on a fresh account without mutter. So the
> > backtrace would be appreciated.
> > You need to start gdb from another VT (e.g. switch to the first text
> > console with Ctrl+Alt+F1), and attach gdb to gnome-shell: 
> >         gdb /usr/bin/gnome-shell $(pidof gnome-shell)
> 
> Nope, I'm not getting it.
> 
> If I run (with 10654 being gnome-shell's process) from VT1...
> 
> gdb /usr/bin/gnome-shell 10654
> 
> ... then switching back to the shell, and the shell is frozen, can't
> interact with it in anyway shape or form. (Killing gdb and then
> switching back to gnome-shell, and gnome-shell is normal again and I can
> start programs, access Activites etc.)
>