I was switching from a text console back to xfce. After doing so many apps (but not all) started closing on their own. I found this in syslog: Aug 9 17:01:03 kite.cc.ku.edu kernel: xfce4-terminal[2691]: segfault at 90 ip 00007fe8132ea6c4 sp 00007fff0f4637a0 error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.17[7fe81328e000+ed000] Aug 9 17:01:06 kite.cc.ku.edu systemd[1]: Created slice system-systemd\x2dcoredump.slice. Aug 9 17:01:06 kite.cc.ku.edu systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 29527/UID 0). Aug 9 17:01:25 kite.cc.ku.edu systemd-coredump[29530]: Process 2691 (xfce4-terminal) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 2691: #0 0x00007fe8132ea6c4 n/a (libgdk-3.so.0) #1 0x00007fe8132f5029 n/a (libgdk-3.so.0) #2 0x00007fe8132f4bb3 n/a (libgdk-3.so.0) #3 0x00007fe8132bd5d2 gdk_display_get_event (libgdk-3.so.0) #4 0x00007fe8132f4734 n/a (libgdk-3.so.0) #5 0x00007fe811e01a57 g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0) #6 0x00007fe811e01c88 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #7 0x00007fe811e01fa2 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0) #8 0x00007fe8137b5d7f gtk_main (libgtk-3.so.0) #9 0x00000053039cb05d n/a (xfce4-terminal) #10 0x00007fe8118134ca __libc_start_main (libc.so.6) #11 0x00000053039cb4da n/a (xfce4-terminal) Stack trace of thread 2731: #0 0x00007fe8118d6e9d poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007fe811e01c09 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007fe811e01d1c g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007fe811e01d61 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007fe811e28ae5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007fe811ba0049 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007fe8118e0f0f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 3020: #0 0x00007fe8118d6e9d poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007fe7fc243ee1 n/a (libpulse.so.0) #2 0x00007fe7fc2356f1 pa_mainloop_poll (libpulse.so.0) #3 0x00007fe7fc235d8e pa_mainloop_iterate (libpulse.so.0) #4 0x00007fe7fc235e40 pa_mainloop_run (libpulse.so.0) #5 0x00007fe7fc243e29 n/a (libpulse.so.0) #6 0x00007fe7f35d0fe8 n/a (libpulsecommon-10.0.so) #7 0x00007fe811ba0049 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #8 0x00007fe8118e0f0f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 2732: #0 0x00007fe8118d6e9d poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007fe811e01c09 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007fe811e01fa2 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007fe8125f8546 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007fe811e28ae5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007fe811ba0049 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007fe8118e0f0f __clone (libc.so.6)
Hi, Do I understand correctly that you were switching using Ctrl+Alt+F#? and there were multiple apps that started crashing, not only the terminal? Is the scenario reproducible for you?
Correct I had used Ctrl+Alt+Fn to switch to a terminal as I could not get anything to respond to mouse clicks or keyboard input (sorry I forgot to mention that the first time). After switching to the terminal I switched back to XFCE using Ctrl+Alt+F1 at which point *some* of my apps (other than just the terminal) decided to disappear (crash?). At this time I'm not able to reproduce the problem.
(In reply to jeffreylong+xfce from comment #2) > Correct I had used Ctrl+Alt+Fn to switch to a terminal as I could not get > anything to respond to mouse clicks or keyboard input (sorry I forgot to > mention that the first time). After switching to the terminal I switched > back to XFCE using Ctrl+Alt+F1 at which point *some* of my apps (other than > just the terminal) decided to disappear (crash?). So this looks like something bad was happening to your system since it wasn't responding to inputs. > At this time I'm not able to reproduce the problem. I'm closing this bug as I don't believe it indicates problems with the terminal; probably there was a kind of system failure that happened. Please feel free to reopen it if you find evidences of the terminal causing crashes.