Message-ID/news-Link crashes gnome-terminal

[Andreas]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When I click on a Link which is a Message-ID in Usenet-Postings, the Gnome-Terminal crashes:
Example:

The newsreader shows this line in a posting:

"T-Online-Team" <T-Online-Team@t....com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:<email address hidden>...

Then I right-click on "news:..." ("Link open") and the gnome-Terminal chrashes. This error is
repeatable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 27 17:38:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=akneib --geometry=90x35 -e screen\ -U
ProcCwd: /home/akneib
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=/home/akneib/.own/bin:/home/akneib/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux akneib-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Andy Price (andy-price)]

Thanks for your bug report. I can confirm that this bugs occurs with gnome-terminal 2.18.0-0ubuntu1 on an up-to-date i386 Ubuntu 7.04.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I can confirm it too; all open terminal windows crash.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Andy, thank you for your bug work, retracing a bug without a crash file doesn't work though

[Andy Price (andy-price)]

OK sorry about that Sebastien. I couldn't find any docs about what it requires so I thought I'd just try it.

Also I've reported this bug in the gnome bugzilla and linked this bug to it. I hope I've done it right, the interface is very confusing/uninformative.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is no stacktrace on the bug, could you get one as described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash?

[Andreas (akneib)]

I am not a developer, but I'm try to start the gnome-terminal with the GNUDebugger. That's the result:

** ERROR **: file terminal-screen.c: line 1479 (open_url): should not be reached
aborting...

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread -1227061568 (LWP 28579)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

Hope, that help.

[Andreas (akneib)]

And this are the last line of the output-file which is create with " strace -trace=open,close,write,read -o output gnome-terminal":

    0.000130 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0xb714dcd0, [PIPE], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
     0.000083 write(16, "\16\0\0\0", 4) = 4
     0.000104 write(16, "gtk-events-2/activate\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 128) = 128
     0.000107 read(16, "\377\377\377\377", 4) = 4
     0.000062 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {0xb714dcd0, [PIPE], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0
     0.000156 write(2, "\n** ERROR **: file terminal-scre"..., 94) = 94
     0.000428 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0
     0.000068 tgkill(29216, 29216, SIGABRT) = 0
     0.000046 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) ---
     2.062990 +++ killed by SIGABRT (core dumped) +++

[Andy Price (andy-price)]

Here's a stack trace obtained with the -dbgsym package installed

[Andy Price (andy-price)]

The bug seems to be reproducible with any link of the form news:foo@bar

[Andreas (akneib)]

Yes, here too: Even news:a@b let the gnome-terminal crash.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

I've posted a bit of stuff into the upstream bug....

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Still here in
gnome-terminal 2.18.1-1ubuntu2

Andy:
Did you want to make a patch for this issue?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That has been fixed upstream now

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

fixed on hardy, thanks for reporting.