Public bug reported: Gnome-terminal can crash if a tab is dragged across windows, and later the title of the tab is changed.
Since gnome-terminal is one single process for all your terminal windows and tabs, upon a crash all the gnome-terminal windows disappear, easily causing loss of precious unsaved work. To easily reproduce: 1. Open at 2 (or more) gnome-terminal windows, and in one of them 2 (or more) tabs. 2. In one of these tabs, make the title change constantly: while sleep 0.1; do echo -ne "\e]0;$(date +%S)\a"; done 3. Drag and drop this tab (with the changing title) to another gnome- terminal window. (Don't drag it within the same window, that won't make it crash.) Repeat this step multiple times. After a few (usually less than 10) drag-n-drop actions, gnome-terminal crashes. Please backport this fix from mainstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=f65261a ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Jun 19 01:37:45 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (749 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-25 (85 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1331864 Title: [Patch] CRASH when dragging a tab and later changing its title To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1331864/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs