Bug#909328: gnome-terminal: Crashes when using 'set lines=999' in Vim editor

[Egmont Koblinger]

Hello,

I also tried and couldn't reproduce the problem.

It's probably a race condition as gnome-terminal asks to be of size
999x999, and the window manager rejects it and forces a smaller one.

How do you exactly set the size from vim? Do you put these lines in vimrc,
or you type these commands interactively, etc., how exactly? I'm asking
because let's say whether the two dimensions are modified in a single step
or in two consecutive steps might make a difference.

What's your display server (X vs. Wayland), what graphical desktop and
window manager do you use? I'm asking because potentially all of them
behaves somewhat differently.

Does vim's startup always crash gnome-terminal for you? If not then
approximately how often?

A backtrace would indeed be great, I'd add to Bernhard's response that
libvte-2.91-0 should also be compiled with debug symbols, since the crash
is most likely inside vte.

Thanks,
egmont
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