Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

x-terminal-emulator fails with segmentation fault

Bug #21876 reported by Edward Mendelson on 2005-09-17

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Under Breezy as of 17 Sept, x-terminal-emulator fails to run. If you launch it
from the Root Terminal item on the Applications menu, the "starting root
terminal" message appears but the program doesn't run. If you try to launch sudo
x-terminal-emulator from a command prompt, it fails with a "segmentation fault"
message. This seems fairly severe! Thanks for any fix.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-09-17:

Thanks for your bug. Could you get a backtrace of the crash
(http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces)?

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Edward Mendelson (em36) wrote on 2005-09-21:

Apologies: it turns out that this was the side-effect of a bug in suspend-to-RAM
(now fixed). After waking from suspend-to-RAM on this system (in the early days of
Breezy preview), this and other programs failed with segmentation fault errors. It
wasn't a problem in this program but in the wake from suspend. Please mark this bug
fixed.