[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#528318: xfce4-terminal: terminal always segfaults when starting

[Ian MacKinnell]

Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.2.12-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


The XFCE4 terminal emulator suddenly ceased to work when I upgraded to 
the latest version (0.2.12.-1) and has not worked since. I have been 
using xterm as a workaround.

When I try to start xfce4-terminal from a command prompt, it segfaults 
instantly. No window appears. Example session:

    $xfce4-terminal
    Segmentation fault
    $

If I click on the XFCE desktop menu option "Open Terminal Here" I see a 
popup window that says: "Failed to execute default Terminal Emulator" 
and underneath "Input/output error."

(NOTE: /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator symlinks to 
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper)

This problem occurs on my work desktop PC, where the details below come 
from. It also occurs on my home desktop PC (running Debian squeeze, all 
packages up-to-date) and on my laptop running Xubuntu (the problem 
occurred on that machine when I updated to Jaunty Jackelope).

All three machines happen to have Intel graphics chipsets of various 
kinds and all run X with xserver-xorg-video-intel.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii  exo-utils                     0.3.101-1  Utility files for libexo
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.24.0-2   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.9-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.12-1   simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.80-4     simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libexo-0.3-0                  0.3.101-1  Library with extensions for 
Xfce
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.0-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.1-2   The GTK+ graphical user 
interface
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.10-1     library for program launch 
feedbac
ii  libvte9                       1:0.20.1-1 Terminal emulator widget 
for GTK+
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxfce4util4                 4.6.1-1    Utility functions library 
for Xfce

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.12-1   simple interprocess 
messaging syst

xfce4-terminal suggests no packages.

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