Re: strange gnome-terminal behaviour

[Adam Alexander <adam alexander lu>]

Hey, I just found an easy workaround to this problem this morning.  Go
into the launcher properties and change the "Command" field from
"gnome-terminal" to "gnome-terminal &".  This causes the terminals to
exit just fine.  Hope that helps. =)

Adam


Roberto Zunino wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Dean Elhard wrote:
> 
> [snip: terminal hanging on exit using gdm]
> 
> > Yes it only happens when run from gdm.  Are you still seeing this
> > behaviour or did you find a workaround or some other solution.  I
> > am getting really frustrated trying to figure out where this is
> > coming from, especially since it doesn't seem to be directly related
> > to the program that isn't working.
> >
> > Sorry about the long, delay, but I had already deleted all of the
> > rpms and reinstalled everything clean, and the problem went away.
> > Now I have re-built the whole deal from source and it is back
> > again. . .
> 
> Sorry, I updated gnome-{libs,core} and gdm to CVS (16 Apr) and I'm still
> seeing this behaviour. The funny thing is that if you open an xterm (or
> equivalent) and launch gnome-terminal from it that is a well-behaved
> terminal!!
> Try this: launch gnome-terminal A (from panel), from A launch
> gnome-terminal B, now in B type 'exit'. B exits correctly. Now in A type
> 'exit': A is still open with a zombie bash.
> And repeated experiments with strace/gmc show that the signal handler of
> the terminal is correctly set to sigchld_handler (as it should be, I
> think). But the terminal never gets the signal (even strace shows it).
> 
> I don't know what might be causing it. (Kernel bug?? Panel messing with
> program launching? Bug in gnome-terminal?)
> 
> Workaround: don't use gdm :-(
> 
> Anyone else on this list using gdm is seeing this?
> Zun.
> 
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