Bug#915477: Needs to handle glibc upgrades more smoothly

[Josh Triplett]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.30.2-1
Severity: important

After upgrading glibc, I could no longer open new terminal tabs, and the
journal contained the following:

Dec 03 15:01:47 jtriplet-mobl2 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[644]: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server: relocation error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files.so.2: symbol __libc_readline_unlocked version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6

gnome-terminal-server needs better handling of failures to start new terminals, and in particular should try re-execing (with children preserved) first. Or alternatively, it should avoid depending on NSS.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                  1.12.10-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal-data                          3.30.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.28-1
ii  libdconf1                                    0.30.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.58.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-4
ii  libuuid1                                     2.32.1-0.2
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                0.54.2-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.7-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                               1.38.1-1
pn  nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal  <none>
ii  yelp                               3.30.0-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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