gnome-terminal assert failure: Vte:ERROR:/build/buildd/vte-0.22.2/./src/vteaccess.c:946:vte_terminal_accessible_get_text: assertion failed: ((start_offset >= 0) && (end_offset >= -1))

[Luke Yelavich]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Different to the last assertion failure I reported, looks like its in another region of code. Only started hitting this today for some reason.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: Vte:ERROR:/build/buildd/vte-0.22.2/./src/vteaccess.c:946:vte_terminal_accessible_get_text: assertion failed: ((start_offset >= 0) && (end_offset >= -1))
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Oct 16 12:21:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libvte.so.9
Title: gnome-terminal assert failure: Vte:ERROR:/build/buildd/vte-0.22.2/./src/vteaccess.c:946:vte_terminal_accessible_get_text: assertion failed: ((start_offset >= 0) && (end_offset >= -1))
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:*__GI_raise (sig=<value optimized out>)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_assertion_message_expr ()
vte_terminal_accessible_get_text (text=0x29ec230,

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report Luke, looks like bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598814 there's a patch upstream at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=145705 could you try to reproduce it after applied that patch to vte? thanks!. reassigning to vte for now.