[some] shells don't start

[Miek Gieben]

If I start termintor-0.2, I get 4 different shape terminal windows. And they all seem to wait on the shell starting.
No output is given what so ever.

This is on ubuntu feisty with zsh as my login shell.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I'm only really testing on gutsy atm, but I set my shell to zsh and saw the same thing as you reported. It seems that zsh is segfaulting. I'll see if I can figure out why.
Thanks for the bug report!

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I am executing the shell in a different way to gnome-terminal even though we both use fork_command(). It constructs the command and environment itself, where I am letting libvte do the work. I will investigate more next week.

[Miek Gieben (miek)]

Haven't check the diff from 0.2 to 0.3, but 0.3 isn't working for me (yet).

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

yeah I'm afraid I've not really gone further than my initial investigation. I know what gnome-terminal is doing and I just need to figure out how to replicate it. I'm not 100% sure that will work, but if it doesn't then I'm entirely stumped. Sorry for the delay.

[Miek Gieben (miek)]

[On 22 Aug, @19:24, Chris Jones wrote in "[Bug 129104] Re: [some] shells ..."]
> yeah I'm afraid I've not really gone further than my initial
> investigation. I know what gnome-terminal is doing and I just need to
> figure out how to replicate it. I'm not 100% sure that will work, but if
> it doesn't then I'm entirely stumped. Sorry for the delay.

No matter, I can wait.

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[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I think I have figured this out, although it suggests a bug in vte. I've attached a version of terminator with a fix applied, could you please try it out? If it works I'll expand the fix properly and put out a new release

[Miek Gieben (miek)]

[On 27 Aug, @01:23, Chris Jones wrote in "[Bug 129104] Re: [some] shells ..."]
> I think I have figured this out, although it suggests a bug in vte. I've
> attached a version of terminator with a fix applied, could you please
> try it out? If it works I'll expand the fix properly and put out a new
> release
>
> ** Attachment added: "test version of terminator"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9003462/terminator

This works (on my i386 system), I still needs to test it on amd64
(home workstation).

But the shells start up and I can type something :)

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[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Thanks for the quick response. If it worked on i386 I'm pretty sure it will on amd64 too. I've fleshed out the fix to make it handle spawning properly and committed it to bzr. When I get your confirmation and get home tomorrow I'll push out a new release.

[Miek Gieben (miek)]

[On 27 Aug, @13:01, Chris Jones wrote in "[Bug 129104] Re: [some] shells ..."]
> Thanks for the quick response. If it worked on i386 I'm pretty sure it
> will on amd64 too. I've fleshed out the fix to make it handle spawning
> properly and committed it to bzr. When I get your confirmation and get
> home tomorrow I'll push out a new release.

Work on amd64 too (remote X)

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[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Released 0.4, which should fix this.