[Patch] CRASH when dragging a tab and later changing its title

[Egmont Koblinger]

Gnome-terminal can crash if a tab is dragged across windows, and later the title of the tab is changed.

Since gnome-terminal is one single process for all your terminal windows and tabs, upon a crash all the gnome-terminal windows disappear, easily causing loss of precious unsaved work.

To easily reproduce:

1. Open at 2 (or more) gnome-terminal windows, and in one of them 2 (or more) tabs.

2. In one of these tabs, make the title change constantly:
while sleep 0.1; do echo -ne "\e]0;$(date +%S)\a"; done

3. Drag and drop this tab (with the changing title) to another gnome-terminal window. (Don't drag it within the same window, that won't make it crash.) Repeat this step multiple times.

After a few (usually less than 10) drag-n-drop actions, gnome-terminal crashes.

Please backport this fix from mainstream:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=f65261a

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 19 01:37:45 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (749 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-25 (85 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Vladimir Dobriakov (vladimir-geekq)]

I experience this bug every couple of days, loosing all the open tabs and being left with e.g. lot of vim swap files.

The bug description is perfect and easy to reproduce in 1 minute. The linked patch is plausible, small and just should be merged!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream issue showing "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2015-05-30
No further reports for over three years so closing

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug was actually closed 2014-05-30