gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

[Nic]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I had just changed the number of scrolling lines in the current profiles from 500 to 1300. When I hit "close" the terminal crashed. I can' t reproduce it unfortunately.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 6 17:56:27 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-terminal 2.21.90-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/nt271
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast ()
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Title: gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
Uname: Linux constantines 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:terminal_screen_reread_profile (screen=0x8101ae0) at terminal-screen.c:619
IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__POINTER (closure=0x874dd10, return_value=0x0,
IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0x874dd10, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2,
signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x80dd678, detail=0, instance=0x80df710, emission_return=0x0,
IA__g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x0, signal_id=129, detail=0,

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514830

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

Would like to comment that I have encountered this bug myself, same crash, different trigger. In my case, I triggered the bug by going to Edit→Current Profile…→Colors, and unchecking the box that says "Use colors from system scheme". The good news is that it managed to save the intended settings to gconf anyway and it wasn't a horrible situation, though I did have child processes running in the terminal at the time. Oh, well. :)

Hopefully this one is squashed soon.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

I just encountered bug 188344 in Brasero, and it looks like that these two bugs are related and that there are several dupes of each.

Is this a bug with GLib, or is this a bug in the client applications which use GLib? Any idea of a way to find out that information?

[Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)]

Just happened to me when switching font for gnome-terminal

[Pepijn van de Geer (pvandegeer)]

Happened to me when switching font size.

[Horst der Biber (sexyhorst69)]

Happened to me when switching background for gnome-terminal.

[wozzinator (cwoz36)]

I have my default profile set up to be transparent so I can see my background and anything underneath the terminal and it crashed while I was lowering the transparency. I can get it to crash every single time for some reason.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

I had 3 terminals open, in one I was scp'ing a large file. I decided to change the default font, and I unchecked the box, and then gnome-terminal crashed. I can't reproduce this bug, now I can check/un-check the default font box fine.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks, there's no need to add more comments for now, the bug has been sent upstream in case they ask for more info we'll ask you to submit it, thanks!.

[Reece (reece)]

Happened to me after changing a terminal "custom command".

[SVWander (windycitybythebay)]

were you able to get the fonts back? Right now it is impossible for me to enter commands because the screen is blank. It was suggested that I edit /boot/grub/menu.lst The suggestion was I was to get rid of the word "quiet splash" It didn't help so I am still without a command line on that machine. At least in X.
Tim

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Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2008 12:06:59 PM
Subject: [Bug 189656] Re: gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

Happened to me after changing a terminal "custom command".

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gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
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[nstriedinger (nathan00)]

crashed when changing fore-ground color in gconf-editor.

[ridcully (mail-engel-stefan)]

Crashed when disabling terminal bell on 'General' tab. Clicking on 'Close' and other tabs did nothing and I could move the window around for some time (5-10 secs) before the edit dialog crashed. The change had been saved.

[Cinar Sahin (csahin)]

Crashed when I did the following:

Edit --> Current Profile --> Scrolling --> [changed the kilobytes entry and hit enter]

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

fixed on trunk, thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is available in ubuntu now

[Rob (robklg)]

Good to see it's fixed..
I was just about to report it, because now i'm able to reproduce this.

This bug happens when you have multiple gnome-terminal's opened. And *if* you close one *window* (and not exit the shell), and afterwards you change a profile setting... then the crash happens.

Hope this is fix is in ubuntu soon..