Seemingly random crashes of all terminal windows

[Mark Vermette]

Typically this happens when I have 4 windows open. This seems to be a new issue for me, dating back perhaps a couple of weeks. I've used this particular 4 terminal setup for years without issues. When the issue occurs, all terminal windows vanish instantly, and I need to restart all of them. Other applications seem unaffected. Details are:

log 1005=> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Release: 20.04
log 1006=> apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04
  Candidate: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04
  Version table:
 *** 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.36.1.1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

And in /var/log/syslog I'm seeing the following - (Server ID removed from log):

Mar 15 10:16:19 gnome-terminal-server[96577]: VTE:ERROR:../src/ringview.cc:299:const vte::base::BidiRow* vte::base::RingView::get_bidirow(vte::grid::row_t) const: assertion failed (row >= m_start): (10011 >= 14401)
Mar 15 10:16:19 gnome-terminal-server[96577]: Bail out! VTE:ERROR:../src/ringview.cc:299:const vte::base::BidiRow* vte::base::RingView::get_bidirow(vte::grid::row_t) const: assertion failed (row >= m_start): (10011 >= 14401)
Mar 15 10:16:20 systemd[2497]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Mar 15 10:16:20 systemd[2497]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Most likely it's upstream bug https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2577.

[Mark Vermette (mvermette)]

Ok, thanks for the update.