gnome-terminal segfault error 4 libgobject-2.0.so

[pd5rm]

During routine usage of gnome-terminal, I experienced a segfault/crash of the app.

I've never observed a crash in terminal, so it was very surprising. Unfortunately, the only log I received was this:

[243052.154280] gnome-terminal[1839]: segfault at 8 ip b6f1daca sp bfa91790 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3000.0[b6f0c000+4d000]

There were no cores, and apport was disabled (the default setting) so nothing meaningful was captured.

I had 3 windows open with multiple tabs in each. One window contained a screen session. The error seemed to occur while I was using vi and editing a file. I don't know if this is reproducible, but hopeful the ip/sp info may be of some use.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 17 15:26:15 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bill Sirinek (bill-sirinek)]

Same issue for me. I only had one window open, and this is a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 with no updates from third-party repos.

I was using "GNOME Classic" mode.

[Rusty Clarkson (flyingsolow)]

I just encountered this bug myself. I had 4 different terminals open on different workspaces. The workspace I was in had 1 terminal open with 2 tabs, I clicked and dragged the right tab and moved it to the left one, I let go and then clicked on the display to deselect the tab. I entered a command and then did an alt+2 and pressed enter and then all of my terminals disappeared. The following line showed up in my kern.log - gnome-terminal[1963]: segfault at 20 ip b709caca sp bfbf8f30 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3000.0[b708b000+4d000]

This is the first time gnome-terminal has crashed on me. Two of my coworkers, since upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10, have also encountered this issue after doing some tab management.

[Redmar (redmar)]

I had this crash twice today, after using multiple instance with multiple tabs each. I have enabled apport now, which hopefully will generate some useful information should it happen again. I'm not sure how to reproduce this yet.

From dmesg (2 crashes):
$ dmesg | grep segfault
[ 3476.302929] gnome-terminal[2917]: segfault at 20 ip 00f23aca sp bfa7c250 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3000.0[f12000+4d000]
[11697.199709] gnome-terminal[3928]: segfault at 100 ip 00b1eaca sp bfafaa60 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3000.0[b0d000+4d000]

[humboink (humboink)]

same here on a three weeks old install of oneiric 32 bits. It did crash while I was switching (C+AN) between two vim inside a screen.

gnome-terminal[17072]: segfault at 20 ip b6f1baca sp bfed3080 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3000.0[b6f0a000+4d000]

[Irfan Adilovic (irfy)]

Just observed with with a freshly updated Ubuntu 11.10. The error occurred while moving one tab out of a two-tab terminal window, to make a separate window for the tab. It happened at the moment when I released the left mouse button outside the original window. One tab was running a git svn clone of the gwt repo, the other an svn checkout of the same repo (though I somehow doubt this is relevant).

[Rusty Clarkson (flyingsolow)]

I am still experiencing this issue( and reproduce it on an almost monthly basis). I have just enabled apport, hopefully I can reproduce this again soon.

[Rusty Clarkson (flyingsolow)]

I had this happen to me on Feb 28th, browser loaded and I selected this bug, however, no attachments were ever uploaded. Therefore, I'm uploading an attachment of the crash.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

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.

Now open your file manager, navigate to your /var/crash directory and open the crash report you wish to submit.
If this fails you will have to open a terminal and file your report with 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash' where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report. If you get an error that you aren't allowed to access this report you will have to file it with 'sudo ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash'.

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.

[Anoop Karollil (anoop-karollil)]

Just saw this myself. This hasn't happened to me before, and the trigger seems to be moving session tabs out of the 'main' application with multiple session tabs. I moved two in the middle of the tab list one at a time to another 'group'. Specifically, moved one out, then moved another into the one that I moved to create a 'group' with two tabs. gnome-terminal crashed after (not immediately) and the following message was in kern.log:

gnome-terminal[2190]: segfault at 8 ip b6f0eaca sp bf8252f0 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3000.0[b6efd000+4d000

I just enabled apport and will try to get a .crash file next time.

[Rusty Clarkson (flyingsolow)]

Just created my new Bug #947526, it was indicated to be a duplicate of Bug #864813.

[Anoop Karollil (anoop-karollil)]

I just reproduced this too. Apport did its automatic bug creation but I found three other bugs with the same apport generated title, one which looked very similar to mine (bug #867565) and so I opted to subscribe to that bug rather than create a new one.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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