Steps to reproduce. 1) Start Terminal 2) 'cd' to your home (or elsewhere INSIDE your home) 3) issue: sudo chown -R X:users /home/X (X = user) 4) That's it, all Terminal will crash. (What is really problematic.. once it was during a compile and it stopped halfway..) Here are some backtraces (log + grep ;)) May 24 09:19:04 ayanami kernel: Terminal[9402] general protection ip:7f211a1dda1d sp:7fff234f44b0 error:0 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7f211a1c0000+11f000] May 28 16:27:57 ayanami kernel: Terminal[3153] general protection ip:7f7f37417ac7 sp:7fff4072fc30 error:0 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7f7f373fa000+11f000] May 30 14:34:16 ayanami kernel: Terminal[1913]: segfault at 20000001 ip 00007fbf2c5ddac7 sp 00007fff358f6730 error 4 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7fbf2c5c0000+11f000] May 24 09:19:04 ayanami kernel: Terminal[9402] general protection ip:7f211a1dda1d sp:7fff234f44b0 error:0 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7f211a1c0000+11f000] May 28 16:27:57 ayanami kernel: Terminal[3153] general protection ip:7f7f37417ac7 sp:7fff4072fc30 error:0 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7f7f373fa000+11f000] May 30 14:34:16 ayanami kernel: Terminal[1913]: segfault at 20000001 ip 00007fbf2c5ddac7 sp 00007fff358f6730 error 4 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7fbf2c5c0000+11f000] May 24 09:19:04 ayanami kernel: Terminal[9402] general protection ip:7f211a1dda1d sp:7fff234f44b0 error:0 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7f211a1c0000+11f000] May 28 16:27:57 ayanami kernel: Terminal[3153] general protection ip:7f7f37417ac7 sp:7fff4072fc30 error:0 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7f7f373fa000+11f000] May 30 14:34:16 ayanami kernel: Terminal[1913]: segfault at 20000001 ip 00007fbf2c5ddac7 sp 00007fff358f6730 error 4 in libvte.so.9.5.2[7fbf2c5c0000+11f000]
Works fine here. Backtrace shows only references to libvte.so, so you probably can reproduce this in the vte terminal too. If it works fine in the vte terminal and not in the Xfce terminal, please reopen the bug, else fill a bug in Gnome's bugzilla against the vte product.