gnome-terminal crashes intermittently with a Segmentation Fault inside cairo code

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • gnome-terminal intermittently crashes with SIGSEGV inside cairo code
  • The problem has not observed on RHEL4
  • the crash is usually reproducible with some custom application running in the terminal for about 100 hours.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (32bit)
  • gnome-terminal

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