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gnome-terminal crashed with SIGSEGV in vte_terminal_extend_selection()

Bug #256769 reported by Anders Kaseorg on 2008-08-11

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator	Fix Released	Critical	gnome-bugs #546940
	vte (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Intrepid by Anders Kaseorg

Bug Description

This is probably the same as #256248, which had a falied apport retrace. I’ve now gotten a better trace manually using -dbgsym packages. Here’s the top; the full trace is attached.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 vte_terminal_extend_selection (terminal=0x7d60b0, x=379, y=251,
    always_grow=102, force=<value optimized out>)
    at /build/buildd/vte-0.17.1/./src/vte.c:6178
#1 0x00007f3aca473e1f in vte_terminal_motion_notify (widget=0x0,
    event=0xb12350) at /build/buildd/vte-0.17.1/./src/vte.c:6632

Versions:
gnome-terminal 2.23.6-0ubuntu1
libvte9 1:0.17.1-0ubuntu1

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/vte

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote on 2008-08-11:

Stacktrace.txt Edit (6.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote on 2008-08-11:

Could you please tell us what you were doing when this crash happened? Steps to reproduce would help us.

Changed in vte:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote on 2008-08-11:

I’ve now figured out a reliable way to reproduce this. Make the terminal display a blank line:

anders@balanced-tree:~$ echo

anders@balanced-tree:~$

and then drag with the mouse to create a selection that includes the blank line.

Changed in vte:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote on 2008-08-11:

I can't reproduce with gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 (Hardy). Possible regression.

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote on 2008-08-11:

Yeah, it’s a very recent regression in Intrepid. The bug goes away after downgrading to libvte9 0.16.14-1ubuntu2 and gnome-terminal 2.23.4.2-0ubuntu2. (Downgrading libvte9 alone doesn’t work, and the bug remains after downgrading gnome-terminal alone.)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-08-12:

Thanks for the report, that's known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546940

Changed in vte:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-08-12

Changed in vte:
status:	Unknown → New

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Jean.c.h (slug71) wrote on 2008-08-13:

No problem, sorry i didnt know i was supposed to check back on these. I am using Intrepid Ibex though. Not quite sure what i was doing but ive been messing with the sound and network manager a bit as i cant get my wireless going or my internal mic. So it could very well be when i was doing something there.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-08-13

Changed in vte:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-08-14:

This is fixed upstream now, thanks everybody for reporting.

Changed in vte:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote on 2008-08-14:

vte_0.17.1-0ubuntu1andersk1.debdiff Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain)

Works for me. Obviously this will be in the next version, but here’s a debdiff if you don’t want to wait.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-08-14:

#10

This bug was fixed in the package vte - 1:0.17.2-0ubuntu1

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vte (1:0.17.2-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix crasher on 64bit systems
    - Fix a bunch of warnings
    - Bugs fixed in this release:
      Bug 546940 – Crash when selecting text (LP: #256769)

-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:56:15 +0200