Re: Trouble with gnome-terminal

[Erin Raasch <eraasch chorus net>]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:41:14 +0100
Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk> wrote:

 
> > When I then open my .gnome/session file, it has about 10-12 entries for 
> > gnome-terminal, as follows:
> 
> Look reasonable to me.
> 
> > 
> > 8,id=11c0a8000c000103261616600000004280019
> > 8,Program=gnome-terminal
> > 8,CurrentDirectory=/home/eraasch
> > 8,DiscardCommand=rm /home/eraasch/.gnome//gnome-terminal-x3bX9r/
> > 8,CloneCommand=gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix /gnome-terminal-x3bX9r/
> > 8,RestartCommand=gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix 
> > /gnome-terminal-x3bX9r/ --sm-client-id 
> > 11c0a8000c000103261616600000004280019
> > 8,Environment=GNOME_DESKTOP_ICON /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-terminal.png

What I meant was, I get this set of entries, repeated 10-12 times (numbered 9, 10, 11, etc.) - apparently an entry for each terminal that pops up.  Is that still reasonable?

This is the output of printenv:
sh-2.05a$ printenv
PWD=/home/eraasch
COLORFGBG=7;default;0
COLORTERM_BCE=Eterm
ETERM_VERSION=0.9.1
WINDOWID=27263121
HZ=100
HOSTNAME=slackalice.homenet
LS_OPTIONS= --color=auto -F -b -T 0
SESSION_MANAGER=local/slackalice:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5122
EBIN=/usr/X11R6/bin
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4
EPID=5107
ECONFDIR=/home/eraasch/.enlightenment
MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4/doc/man:/usr/share/texmf/man
LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s
T1LIB_CONFIG=/usr/share/t1lib/t1lib.config
EVERSION=0.16.5
GNOME_SESSION_NAME=Default
KDEDIR=/opt/kde
LESS=-M
USER=eraasch
LS_COLORS=
CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4/include:/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4/include
LC_ALL=POSIX
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/eraasch
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
DISPLAY=:0.0
EROOT=/usr/X11R6/share/enlightenment
LOGNAME=eraasch
SHLVL=5
LC_CTYPE=
HUSHLOGIN=FALSE
MINICOM=-c on
ETHEME=/usr/X11R6/share/enlightenment/themes/Ganymede
_=/usr/bin/printenv
SHELL=/bin/sh
ECACHEDIR=/home/eraasch/.enlightenment
IFS= 	

HOME=/home/eraasch
TERM=xterm
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.
ETERM_THEME_ROOT=/usr/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm
mc=() {  if [ "$USER" = "root" -a ! "`id | cut -b1-5`" = "uid=0" ]; then
 /usr/bin/mc "$@";
 else
 if [ ! "$USER" = "root" -a "`id | cut -b1-5`" = "uid=0" ]; then
 /usr/bin/mc "$@";
 else
 mkdir -p $HOME/.mc/tmp 2>/dev/null;
 chmod 700 $HOME/.mc/tmp;
 MC=$HOME/.mc/tmp/mc-$$;
 /usr/bin/mc -P "$@" >"$MC";
 cd "`cat $MC`";
 rm -f "$MC";
 unset MC;
 fi;
 fi
}

The SHELL variable is there now, but I can't say if it was when I first had the problem.  On the advice of my niece, I had checked my /etc/passwd file, and it was missing the SHELL variable, so I added it there.

I have been doing some trouble-shooting - one thing I discovered is that this behavior varies depending on how I log in.  I had tried to run gdm in order to get the graphical log in, but got the message "gdm only wants to run as root."  I started gdm as root, then logged in to gnome as user, and that's when I got the errors.  If I run xinit as user, then start gnome-session in an xterm, I still have 3 or 4 terminals spawn in a stack on my desktop, all labelled "log-in" but I don't get the error messages.  Still kind of weird but not as annoying as all those dialog boxes (always tiled, never stacked - like playing whack-a-mole). 

I'm still plugging away at it -  now that I've got my Slackware pretty much set up I'm not doing as much back-and-forthing, so it's less of an issue, but still one I'd like to resolve.

Thanks for the response,

Erin