Terminal/vte bug?

[Robby Workman]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:47:47 -0600
Sergey Manucharian <sergeym at rmico.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Being an xfce guy last days I'm playing with xmonad (tiling WM), but
> use the Terminal as the default terminal app. Sometimes it crashes
> when I go to preferences through right-click and try to change the
> appearance or colors. It's really hard to reproduce. When it happens
> some other applications e.g. Firefox (may) crash simultaneously also.
> The only thing I could catch is the following line from dmesg:
> 
> -------------------
> Terminal[13187]: segfault at 6c657207 ip b7e206ec sp bfda54d0 error 4
> in libvte.so.9.3.3[b7e05000+b3000]
> -------------------


Interesting; I had a crash in Terminal a few days ago when changing the
font size, but I didn't get a backtrace, and since I don't normally
change the font, I haven't reproduced it since.

No idea if it's a vte bug, but that's a good lead.  What vte version
are you running there?

-RW
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