Bug#1082505: gnome-console: crashes on startup: double free or corruption (out)

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 5:34 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 at 11:22:06 +0200, 128 at gmx.us wrote:
> > Looks like it was a coincidence that it worked for a couple of times after installing libvte-2.91-0. Because it stopped working and instead got this message.
> >
> > $ kgx
> >
> > (kgx:8877): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:16:41.855: Unable to acquire the address of the accessibility bus: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files. If you are attempting to run GTK without a11y support, GTK_A11Y should be set to 'none'.
> > double free or corruption (out)
> > Aborted
>
> I'm reassigning this to gnome-console (kgx) because with the information
> available, it is not possible to know whether this is a bug in libvte,
> GTK, gnome-console or something else. If it started with a libvte upgrade,
> then it's perhaps most likely to be a libvte bug, but we don't yet know
> that for sure.

I confirm a similar kgx/gnome-console crash with GTK4 4.14 and
libadwaita 1.5 from Testing. The issue goes away once I am using GTK4
4.16 and libadwaita 1.6 from Unstable.

If that is correct, we should ask the Debian Release Team to hint gtk4
into Testing now.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha