Possibly what I encountered and reported to BASH (with my other email address) Apply this patch https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.4-patches/bash44-019 Or try building from git, bash 4.4.19. I'll quote report description: "With certain values for PS1, especially those that wrap onto three or more lines, readline will miscalculate the number of invisible characters, leading to crashes and core dumps."
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745273 Title: Cannot open terminal with long working directory name containing Unicode characters Status in bash package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Ubuntu 17.10 2) The version of the package you are using: gnome-terminal version 3.24.2-0ubuntu4; bash version 4.4-5ubuntu1 3) What you expected to happen: When opening a terminal window with a long working directory path containing Unicode characters (such as “/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789” in a 80×24 window), gnome-terminal opens normally. 4) What happened instead: gnome-terminal closes immediately, both when opened using gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789 and when changing to this directory using “cd”. There is no output on stderr or anywhere else, the window just closes. It seems that gnome-terminal closes because bash crashes with a segmentation fault, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /gnome-terminal/+bug/1745273/comments/4. This makes it impossible to use the shell for many directories with long paths. This did NOT happen in Ubuntu 16.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1745273/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
