Bug#909328: gnome-terminal: Crashes when using 'set lines=999' in Vim editor
Hello, I also tried and couldn't reproduce the problem. It's probably a race condition as gnome-terminal asks to be of size 999x999, and the window manager rejects it and forces a smaller one. How do you exactly set the size from vim? Do you put these lines in vimrc, or you type these commands interactively, etc., how exactly? I'm asking because let's say whether the two dimensions are modified in a single step or in two consecutive steps might make a difference. What's your display server (X vs. Wayland), what graphical desktop and window manager do you use? I'm asking because potentially all of them behaves somewhat differently. Does vim's startup always crash gnome-terminal for you? If not then approximately how often? A backtrace would indeed be great, I'd add to Bernhard's response that libvte-2.91-0 should also be compiled with debug symbols, since the crash is most likely inside vte. Thanks, egmont
Bug#909328: gnome-terminal: Crashes when using 'set lines=999' in Vim editor
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:18 PM Leon van Velzen wrote: > Used common option 'set lines=999' and 'set columns=999' in the Vim editor as > a > trick to make the terminal full screen. This worked in other terminals but I > noticed it made all instances of gnome terminal crash. In GNOME Terminal > Preferences, you can set the initial terminal size. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
Bug#909328: gnome-terminal: Crashes when using 'set lines=999' in Vim editor
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.30.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Used common option 'set lines=999' and 'set columns=999' in the Vim editor as a trick to make the terminal full screen. This worked in other terminals but I noticed it made all instances of gnome terminal crash. * What was the outcome of this action? A crash of all terminal instances, not just the one running Vim. * What outcome did you expect instead? That the terminals stayed alive, Vim kept running and the terminal would resize to the full size of the screen. Thanks for all the software, it's a joy to use Gnome. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.12.10-1 ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.12.10-1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.30.0-1 ii gnome-terminal-data 3.30.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.0-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-1 ii libc6 2.27-6 ii libdconf1 0.30.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.0-4 ii libgtk-3-03.24.0-3 ii libpango-1.0-01.42.4-3 ii libuuid1 2.32.1-0.1 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.54.0-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.6-1 Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii gvfs 1.38.0-2 ii nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.30.0-1 ii yelp 3.30.0-1 gnome-terminal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
