Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 24 mars 2009 à 09:38 -0600, Paul E Condon a écrit :
> Per your instructions I did that. At the time, I had already started sixteen 
> extra gnome-terminal windows, because I already suspect that having a large
> number ot windows open increases the problem. I also ran 
> ps -ef |grep 'gnome-terminal' |wc
> There was exactly ONE instance of gnome-terminal running (,and one instance
> of "grep 'gnome-terminal'").
> 
> This is what I got:
> pec at big:~$  gdb gnome-terminal
> GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
> (gdb) run

As I explained, you need to type "run --disable-factory" if you want to
start a new gnome-terminal process.

You also probably want to start the dozens of windows from the new
process you are starting, not from the existing one.

> I'm also CCing Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> because he also
> replied to my request for help on invoking gdb.

Please keep sending email to the bug report instead of individuals.

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