Bug#862591: libvte-2.91-0: xfce4-terminal crashes when dumping a lot of text

[Brian Warner]

On 5/17/17 12:24 AM, Andreas Henriksson wrote:

> Thus z_ret = 4294967293 = -1 = Z_ERRNO
> 
> Snippet from zlib.h:
> 
>    If an error occurred in the file system and not in the compression
>    library, errnum is set to Z_ERRNO and the application may consult
>    errno to get the exact error code.
> 
> This means it's very likely a problem with your (non-Debian) operating
> system setup. Please do not report issues to Debian when you're not
> using a Debian installation (e.g. non-Debian kernel) without first
> making sure it's actually reproducile on a Debian installation (or
> atleast certainly not with severity grave!). Wasting our limited time
> chasing non-Debian issues isn't very nice.

I'm sorry about that.. I did not consider that it could be related to
the kernel. I'll investigate further and if I find any issues that are
relevant to debian, I'll add more information to this ticket.

thanks,
 -Brian