Just a very silly guess.... You are not doing anything strange in your bashrc or bash_profile or profile files in your home (IÃÅm assuming you use bash as your shell), arenÃÅt you? Once, I locked myself in an infinite call to screen, opening a screen within a screen within a screen because I included screen in bashrc and when it launced screen it would read that same bashrc where it would launc another one! Just checking.. :) Good luck, -- .''`. : :' : J. Javier Maestro `. `'` <jjmaestro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> `- http://rigel.homelinux.com/ On Feb Tue 10 2004 02:01, David Murphy wrote: > Hi folks. I'm running a Linux From Scratch system. This problem plagued me > for a while at Gnome 2.2, and it's still around after an upgrade to 2.4. > > When I execute gnome-terminal, it pulls up a terminal window, but then > gives me nothing. The cursor blinks away at the upper-left corner of the > window, but I never get a prompt, and it won't accept any input. Executing > vte has identical symptoms (though a different-looking window). This > happens on my non-root user, but the terminals work just fine as root. > Sounds like a permission problem, but examining a few obvious suspects > produced nothing. I found a similar problem discussed long ago in the list > archives, but I didn't get anything out of that. > > Basically, to start with, can someone give me a brief list of possibilites > for file permission problems? > > Another bug from 2.2 (haven't tested it in 2.4)... as non-root, if I opened > two terminal windows and then closed one, Gnome would die, and gdm would > recycle to the login screen. Don't know if that's related or not. > > I've tried two versions of gnome-terminal and vte, (2.2.1/0.10.26 and > 2.4.2/0.11.10) same results. > > Thanks for any help... > > -David Murphy _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
