Bug#1040049: gnome-terminal: assert hit on mouseover, all open terminal windows are lost

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 at 16:12:11 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 16:08, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > I normally use gnome-console (kgx) myself, and I wasn't able to reproduce
> > this in some brief testing with gnome-terminal; I also didn't see
> > this when testing the 0.70.6-1~deb12u1 update on a bookworm system.
> > Are there any special steps to trigger this assertion failure?
> 
> Bookworm with p-u. I cannot reproduce reliably, it happens randomly
> when using the mouse scroll wheel inside gnome-terminal. Do you need
> the core file?

A backtrace to the bug would be ideal; a full core dump file probably
gives us a limited amount of extra info compared with a backtrace,
and is more likely to contain something confidential. If you can find
a way to repro the issue somewhat reliably then it would also be useful
to know whether it's the same backtrace every time.

If you can try rolling back to bookworm without p-u for this package and
try to reproduce it, that would also be very useful: if we need to revert
a change before 12.1, then there is going to be quite a tight deadline
for that.

I'm likely to have limited availability for the next couple of weeks so
I'd appreciate it if others from the GNOME team can help with this.
(Jeremy?)

    smcv