Terminal/vte bug?

[Sergey Manucharian]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:56:26 -0500
Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:

> 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

...forgot the main things :)

Terminal 0.2.10 (Xfce 4.6.0)
vte 0.17.4
xorg-server 1.5.3

running in Archlinux box (2.6.28.7)

Sergey