Re: gnome-terminal broken

[Sean Murphy <murphy erim-int com>]

You might have corrupted the 'Terminal' file in your ~/.gnome directory?
Try moving it to something like Terminal.old and then launch a
gnome-terminal and see if Gnome recreates it for you.

Also, does this just happen to you logged in as a user?  Does it happen when
you are logged in as root, or when other users (if there are any) are logged
in?

Lem Meador wrote:

> While I was working in a gnome-terminal window earlier this week, my
> system froze solid. The terminal session froze in mid key stroke. I had
> no choice but to hard reboot the system. As a result, I've apparently
> corrupted something with
> the system setup for my gnome-terminal.
>
> When I run 'gnome-terminal' -- either from the menu or from a kterm
> window, I get a gnome-terminal
> window and the cursor is frozen in the upper lefthand corner. I also get
> an error message in a popup window that says: "There has been an error
> while trying to login. The error was: Interrupted system call."
>
> On the kterm window I then get this message:
>
> [lmeador strider lmeador]$ gnome-terminal
> Living environment not ok
> Error: unable to fork: Interrupted system call
>
> All other applications work normally.
>
> In trying to resolve the problem, I've run fsck to verify that my drives
> are not corrupted;
> I've upgraded to helix-gnome 1.2; I've rebuilt and installed the
> gnome-core 1.2.1 package which provides the
> gnome-terminal application, and I've rebuilt and installed the
> gnome-utils package, all to no avail. All other terminals work fine
> (Xterm and Kterm) and bash appears to be functioning normally, as far as
> I can tell.
>
> Suggestions on what might be causing the problem?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Lem Meador
> Content Engineering Manager
> Cox Interactive Media
> Atlanta, GA
>
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