On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > today I decided to upgrade from bookworm to trixie/testing[1][2]. I ran > the upgrade in a gnome-terminal, and of course all gnome terminals in > the system crashed halfway through the upgrade[1][3].
Foreword: I'm pretty happy with Gnome Terminal and use it exclusively for many many years now. That said... Gnome Terminal nowadays has a server architecture. That means even if you open many terminals, there is still just a single backend process controlling all. So "all gnome terminals" really refers to that single backend process (well, one per user, but if you were doing a dist upgrade, then I doubt you had multiple users logged in via different locally connected monitors/keyboards). If that single process quit unexpectedly, then you should see systemd recording that in the journal (journalctl --user), and if it was a true crash instead of a controlled abort(), then the kernel should also have logged it. And it's also possible that there was nothing wrong with Gnome Terminal itself. Nowadays there is a lot of infrastructure around it - and I'm sure nobody tested all the potential error paths which could be hit if some parts of that infrastructure disappear/restart and the new version of a given piece is not necessarily 100% compatible with the previous version. Regards, Gabor
