Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

[Paul E Condon]

On 2009-03-24_18:20:27, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 24 mars 2009 ?? 10:33 -0600, Paul E Condon a ??crit :
> > Now that I am getting into explicitly trying to trigger this bug, I
> > see that I really don't know how to trigger it for certain. I'm coming
> > to believe that long time running may be important to getting it to
> > happen. I have a little icon in the upper panel that I put there when
> > I installed gnome. Clicking that icon starts gnome-terminal. I know
> > how to edit the internal object that provides that icon. Now the
> > command that it invokes is 'gnome-terminal'. Should I edit it to be
> > 'gdb gnome-terminal' ? But then where would the controlling console
> > be? Rather than my inventing some crazy scheme, I would like some
> > instruction as to what, in detail, to do.
> 
> If you???re really not sure, you should install bug-buddy, it will show
> you the backtrace when the crash occurs.

I've installed bug-buddy. There is no man or info. And lots of
complaints about invoking it when I type it at the command line with
no options. The options I see with the help option are not things I
understand. (But I wouldn't expect help messages to deal with the deep
ignorance that I appear to have.) I don't see a way to launch it in
any of the gnome menus. No new icon in the panel. Google says it is
part of gnome. but doesn't say how to make it happen - get it started
- whatever.

And I have no idea what it is supposed to do, or when, if ever I should
start it, or what I should expect to happen when it runs correctly or
what will be the indication if it does not run correctly. I think I
need help.

While installing these packages I have made a point of adjusting color
schemes often. I continue to get disappearance of g-t windows, but only
about a quarter of the times I make a change. I have learned a way to
ease the pain of these crashes: I have turned off the automatic recording
of a session when logging out of gnome, and I am learning to record the
session manually when all the windows that I want are running nicely. 

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon at mesanetworks.net