Comment 5 for bug 1745273

Hi,

The bash bug I linked indeed seems to be a different one; however, it might give some clues about what might going on. E.g. your locale, PS1, PROMPT_COMMAND etc. _might_ be relevant. (I cannot reproduce your problem, although I can see the prompt incorrectly showing parts of color changing escape sequences. I have a custom PS1, though. Allegedly work-in-progress bash-4.5 is going to contain yet another bunch of related fixes.)

Could you try for example to “unset PROMPT_COMMAND” at the last line of your .bashrc, or change to a much simpler PS1, does it still crash then?

Could you please try with bash development version?

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash.git
cd bash
git checkout devel
./configure
make DEBUG= MALLOC_DEBUG=
./bash

If this one is still buggy, it would the best if you could raise this issue with upstream bash maintainers. There's a "bashbug" tool that collects the information required by developers. (Since I don't have cmdline email sending set up, I just see which file it opens for me to edit, open the same file in gedit and copy-paste to my favorite email client (this way long lines don't get chopped).)

If the devel version is okay then Ubuntu will also be fixed whenever bash-4.5 is released and then Ubuntu upgrades to that, which might still take quite a while. I'm sorry but I won't be able to help backporting the fix to Ubuntu, I'm not an Ubuntu developer, just lurking around here keeping an eye on gnome-terminal :)