Terminal crashes when UTF-8 is removed as character encoding

[thoughtbox]

E.g. when choosing Western ISO-8859-1 and then removing the default Unicode UTF-8, sometimes GNOME Terminal crashes (bringing with it all apps that have been started from within the terminal).

This bug also existed in 8.10; I am currently running 9.04.

The bug is not consistent -- usually it happens if the terminal has been running for a while with UTF-8 and I remember to change to 8859-1 and then remember that I want to actually remove UTF-8 as a choice (I still haven't managed :-).

tb@t61p:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
tb@t61p:~$ uname -a
Linux t61p 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/TB

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[David Monniaux (david-monniaux)]

Gnome-terminal crashed on 9.04 x86_64 when adding iso-8859-1 as encoding (old list was only utf-8). I enabled apport... and was unable to reproduce the crash.