terminator keeps crashing: segfault in libvte.so.9.2800.2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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terminator (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ever since I moved to Xenial (months ago), terminator keeps crashing, many times a day. It's apparently a segfault in libvte:
Apr 8 15:06:08 simon-laptop kernel: [21236.169787] terminator[32551]: segfault at 88 ip 00007f1efaaf4213 sp 00007fffbfb93818 error 4 in libvte.
When trying to collect some useful debugging info, I ran terminator with -d. It helped reduce the occurrence of crashes but I don't know if anything of value was logged. Please let me know if something else (strace?) would be needed to debug this.
Terminator is really a wonderful tool so I can't wait to have it working stable again.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: terminator 0.98-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 8 15:08:20 2016
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: terminator
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in terminator (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
I see no point in debugging this crash.
The latest Terminator tarball (0.98, also shipped by Xenial) uses an ancient and terribly buggy gtk2-based vte which is no longer maintained. Terminator's maintainer should finally address the remaining 2-3 bugs (which do have patches by the way) in the gtk3 branch, make a release, and forget the gtk2 branch for good. See https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/terminator /+bug/1030562 .
Until then, I recommend to you to ditch the version shipped by Xenial and use the one from the terminator-gtk3 bzr branch.