Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On mar, 2009-05-12 at 23:10 +1000, Ian MacKinnell wrote:
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Can you provide a backtrace, with debugging symbols?
Not without instructions. I can supply strace.
Install libatk1.0-dbg libc6-dbg libdbus-glib-1-2-dbg libexo-0.3-0-dbg
libglib2.0-0-dbg libgtk2.0-0-dbg libxfce4util4-dbg gdb
Then run:
gdb xfce4-terminal
Then:
run
When it segfaults, run:
set logging on xfce4-terminal.txt
backtrace full
And mail us the xfce4-terminal.txt.
I tried this and only got the following short file:
#0 0x0805d5a6 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xbfa77a28 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x08063eb4 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n)
I added a couple of more -dbg packages and tried again, but got the same
results. Here is the current output of "dpkg -l *dbg|grep ii" (list all
installed debug packages):
ii libatk1.0-dbg 1.24.0-2 The
ATK libraries and debugging symbols
ii libc6-dbg 2.9-4 GNU
C Library: detached debugging symbols
ii libdbus-glib-1-2-dbg 0.80-4
simple interprocess messaging system (GLib l
ii libexo-0.3-0-dbg 0.3.101-1
debugging informations for libexo
ii libglib2.0-0-dbg 2.20.0-2 The
GLib libraries and debugging symbols
ii libgtk2.0-0-dbg 2.16.1-2 The
GTK+ libraries and debugging symbols
ii libxfce4util4-dbg 4.6.1-1
debugging informations for libxfce4util4
ii libxfcegui4-4-dbg 4.6.1-1
debugging informations for libxfcegui4
ii libxfconf-0-2-dbg 4.6.1-1
debugging informations for libxfconf
Anyway ... the next point got results.
However, to test a fresh home directory with no legacy configuration, I
created a new user account and logged in as this user. I then tried
xfce4-terminal and it worked OK. So it looks like my existing user
configuration either conflicts with the new version of the terminal, or
else got fried somehow when I updated to xfce 4.6.
You may want to diff the config files (in .config). xfce4-terminal
doesn't use xfconf so you can limit yourself
to .config/Terminal/terminalrc.
Cheers,
I backed up and deleted the ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc in my home
directory and then xfce4-terminal worked with my login.
I experimented and found that the terminal crashed on start if (while
the terminal was not running) I manually edited the terminalrc file so that
MiscAlwaysShowTabs=TRUE
instead of FALSE (the default setting). I always set this fag to TRUE -
I have read on the Net somewhere (see below) that manually editing the
file was the only way to change this setting. I don't like tab bars that
appear and disappear whenever a second tab is opened or closed, so I set
this flag to TRUE on all my desktops and laptops. The setting worked
fine in previous versions of xfce4-terminal.
Here is the documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/xfce4-terminal/html/C/advanced.html#hidden-options
So it appears to be a much less serious bug: xfce-terminal no longer
works with MiscAlwaysShowTabs=TRUE
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