When I change to that same directory in xterm, it closes just like gnome-terminal. So it doesn’t seem to be specific to gnome-terminal, but it DOES seem to be important that the input prompt fills more than two lines in the terminal to trigger the bug.
I’ve tested this on my laptop, and it doesn’t happen there with the path from the original report because this machine’s hostname is shorter, so the input prompt is shorter as well. Using an even longer path, however, the same happens on this machine. The “ä” is a precomposed character. Using your command, the output is 0000000 c3 a4 0a 0000005 c3 a4 is the UTF-8 representation of the Unicode character U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS. So I’m not sure if that specific bash bug has anything to do with this (since there are no surrogates anywhere in my example), but since xterm is also affected, the cause does seem to be a lower-level component (bash? readline?). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745273 Title: Cannot open terminal with long working directory name containing Unicode characters Status in bash package in Ubuntu: New Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Ubuntu 17.10 2) The version of the package you are using: gnome-terminal version 3.24.2-0ubuntu4; bash version 4.4-5ubuntu1 3) What you expected to happen: When opening a terminal window with a long working directory path containing Unicode characters (such as “/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789” in a 80×24 window), gnome-terminal opens normally. 4) What happened instead: gnome-terminal closes immediately, both when opened using gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789 and when changing to this directory using “cd”. There is no output on stderr or anywhere else, the window just closes. It seems that gnome-terminal closes because bash crashes with a segmentation fault, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /gnome-terminal/+bug/1745273/comments/4. This makes it impossible to use the shell for many directories with long paths. This did NOT happen in Ubuntu 16.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1745273/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
