gnome-terminal crashed with signal 7

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oops I mean...

I ran update just now, and terminal still crashes. I tried reinstalling it, but still the same. I reran the backtrace just in case it contains different information. Could this be anyway related to the evolution crash I reported?

Seeing this problem as well, not fixed with upgrade to 2.6.22-13, let me know if you need any additional information.

I have the same problem and it is not yet fixed. I just get a Bus Error (Core Dumped) whenever I try to run gnome-terminal. Gutsy is fully updated.

I'm having the same problem, "bus error". I attach a backtrace of the gnome-terminal execution.

I was also running into this problem I will attach my strace,backtrace,and valgrind files. I was eventually able to rectify this problem by going through my /var/log/dpkg.log and backing out changes(using apt-get to remove and downgrade packages) untill it worked again. At that point I was able to redo the apt-get update; apt-get upgrade to get back to the latest glibc and then reinstalled all the extra packages one by one.. Eventually I got all my dev packages reinstalled with gnome-terminal working. I suspect it was an undetected lib error on upgrade/install between libc6 and some dev packages that was causing gnome-terminal to bus error.

The commands required to fix this for me was(note I have combined multiple apt-get install lines at the end into a single install line since there was no problem with any of the individual packages):

sudo apt-get remove libsdl1.2-dev
(was not allowing downgrade of libc package untill I first removed it)
sudo apt-get install libc6=2.6.1-1ubuntu9
(downgrade of recent libc update, also removed additional dev libs see remove_packages details, at this point gnome-terminal was working again)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
(upgraded back to libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu10 with gnome-terminal still working, I thought for sure it was an error in glibc since that is about when it stopped working)
sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libsdl-console-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-stretch-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsmpeg-dev libsdl1.2-dev g++ ghc6 libaa1-dev libasound2-dev libesd0-dev libaudiofile-dev libhdf4g-dev libdirectfb-dev libpng12-dev libxft-dev libtiff4-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libcaca-dev libslang2-dev openalpp-cvs-doc libosgal-cvs-dev libopenalpp-cvs-dev libvorbis-dev libflac-dev libogg-dev libmikmod2-dev libglu1-xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libexpat1-dev libreadline5-dev libncurses5-dev libjpeg62-dev ubuntu-minimal libc6-i686 libstdc++6-4.1-dev libc6-dev g++-4.1
(NOTE I installed each of these one at time testing gnome-terminal afterward to find the culprit)

EMenifee,
I blindly followed your instructions and they worked for me. Thank you! (Not sure why they worked, but am happy they did)

I am having the same 'gnome-terminal' problem, except my computer is far away in a server room, so I am using NX client to log into it.

So today my gnome-terminal stopped working and I found out there is no way to start any other terminal (e.g. xterm) or any other command whatsoever anywhere in the gnome GUI. Even windows provide a 'Run...' option in the Start menu so one can access the command line.

Ugh, I haven't had any problems with ubuntu in the last 2 years, but lately I get bitten almost daily (broken parted, ldconfig, now this, ...).

Anyways, thanks to everyone for everything and good luck.

Peter,
I do not know if NX client remotly changes anything, but under gnome in a local xsession ALT-F2 brings up the Run Application dialog, where you can type in xterm (assuming xterm is installed). Note be sure NOT to have the 'Run in terminal' checkbox selected, since gnome-terminal is broken it would not launch....You might also try to slogin from another machine to diagnose the gnome-terminal issue...You can also right click on the panel, select 'Add to Panel'. In the dialog choose 'Custom Application Launcher', Choose Type: 'Application', Name: xterm, Command: /usr/bin/xterm.
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Peter,
I had this problem too since last update.
If you need a terminal you could also install "konsole" (the kde console tool): it works for me (yet you have to install kde deps packages which may not be a viable option for you, if the machine you're using is a server and/or you want to keep it "clean")

Can someone please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Here's a Valgrind report.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

It was resolved unknowingly :) after multiple reinstallations...

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
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> gnome-terminal crashed with signal 7
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146399
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ok thanks for the feedback, closing the bug.