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gnome-terminal package

gnome-terminal crashes on "reset" in remote ssh session

Bug #437924 reported by David Tomaschik on 2009-09-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #435367: 'reset' kills gnome-terminal assert failure: Vte:ERROR:/build/buildd/vte-0.22.0/./src/vtestream-file.h:30:_xread: assertion failed: (fd || !len). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I had connected via SSH to a remote machine (running Debian stable) and then run "sudo su -" (yes, I know sudo -i gives similar behavior, but there's an environment quirk on this machine that makes sudo su - seem to work better) to get root. I accidentally "cat"ted a binary, so I used "reset" to attempt to get a sane terminal back. gnome-terminal crashed moments later. Believing this to be a fluke of the catting, I logged back in, "sudo su -" again, and figured I'd "reset" again. It crashed again.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: Vte:ERROR:/build/buildd/vte-0.22.0/./src/vtestream-file.h:30:_xread: assertion failed: (fd || !len)
Date: Sun Sep 27 22:05:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal --sm-client-id 10bcf22b5715ed1bf12521287014818800000051800034 --sm-client-state-file /home/username/.config/session-state/gnome-terminal-1254079670.desktop
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
StacktraceTop:
raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_assertion_message_expr ()
?? () from /usr/lib/libvte.so.9
Title: gnome-terminal assert failure: Vte:ERROR:/build/buildd/vte-0.22.0/./src/vtestream-file.h:30:_xread: assertion failed: (fd || !len)
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

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David Tomaschik (matir) wrote on 2009-09-28:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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ProcStatus.txt Edit (813 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott) wrote on 2009-09-28:

If I open a new terminal window, press enter 50 or so times so a screen of text has scrolled and then click "Reset and Clear" from the terminal menu, then then terminal window crashes.

It's a shame cos I have shift+ctrl+L shortcut set to do this and I do it automatically before starting a test run :-(