Hi, The bash bug I linked indeed seems to be a different one; however, it might give some clues about what might going on. E.g. your locale, PS1, PROMPT_COMMAND etc. _might_ be relevant. (I cannot reproduce your problem, although I can see the prompt incorrectly showing parts of color changing escape sequences. I have a custom PS1, though. Allegedly work-in-progress bash-4.5 is going to contain yet another bunch of related fixes.)
Could you try for example to “unset PROMPT_COMMAND” at the last line of your .bashrc, or change to a much simpler PS1, does it still crash then? Could you please try with bash development version? git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash.git cd bash git checkout devel ./configure make DEBUG= MALLOC_DEBUG= ./bash If this one is still buggy, it would the best if you could raise this issue with upstream bash maintainers. There's a "bashbug" tool that collects the information required by developers. (Since I don't have cmdline email sending set up, I just see which file it opens for me to edit, open the same file in gedit and copy-paste to my favorite email client (this way long lines don't get chopped).) If the devel version is okay then Ubuntu will also be fixed whenever bash-4.5 is released and then Ubuntu upgrades to that, which might still take quite a while. I'm sorry but I won't be able to help backporting the fix to Ubuntu, I'm not an Ubuntu developer, just lurking around here keeping an eye on gnome-terminal :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash 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/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
