Gnome-terminal crashes (still no core dumps)

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Tom,

> In a shell (existing gnome-terminal or xterm)
> 	# ulimit -c 100000

> 	# strace -f -o /tmp/trace-gnome-terminal /usr/bin/gnome-terminal

This is a good idea, although it still doesn't explain how to enable
core dumps for X in general. But I will be starting my sessions to the
SUSE server like this the coming time.

> I did this and noted that gnome-terminal attempts to catch 
> most interesting signals.

The latest glibc update cured the funny resize behaviour I saw before
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113284). Although
that might seem like a good thing the problem is that this will probably
make the crash to be more difficult to reproduce...

> So next I took a chance and looked for help "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --help"
> "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --usage" and I noticed these flags that may help.

Hadn't thought yet of running gnome-terminal with different flags yet. I
will look into that.

> Perhaps "--disable-crash-dialog" is being remembered for some reason
> by your desktop.  I seem to recall a dialog box 100 years ago....

If that is the option that would cause the "report a bug" (ie crash)
dialog to disappear, then no, I do get such a dialog, but I find it
rather useless. It doesn't seem to gather any system information by
itself, certainly no core dumps, so I prefer browsing to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com .

Bye,
Leonard.