Re: All terminal windows close

["Steven J. Yellin" <yellin slac stanford edu>]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Saurabh Barve wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I did 'rpm -Va * > /tmp/altered_files.txt. Nothing showed up in the 
> file. So, hopefully, none of the rpm's is corupted.
>
    Try instead doing 'rpm -Va > /tmp/altered_files.txt'.
    You could also try reinstalling the coreutils rpm with --force.
If the ls command is corrupted, this should replace it with a correct 
version.
 
> I am able to do 'ls /usr/bin > somefile'. There is no problem with the 
> file. I tried running ls for /usr/lib (which has just as many files as 
> /usr/bin), but it scrolled without a problem. But 'ls /usr/bin' crashes 
> all gnome-terminal windows.
> 
> Saurabh.
> 
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> >   1. All terminal windows close (Saurabh Barve)
> >   2. Re: All terminal windows close (Telsa Gwynne)
> >   3. Re: All terminal windows close (Erik Walthinsen)
> >   4. non-session managed programs (Ian Brace)
> >   5. Re: All terminal windows close (Mariano Su?rez-Alvarez)
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> >Message: 1
> >Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:12:21 +0000
> >From: Saurabh Barve <sa atmos colostate edu>
> >Subject: All terminal windows close
> >To: gnome-list gnome org
> >Message-ID: <410FB965 9040807 atmos colostate edu>
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> >Hi,
> >
> >I am having a funny problem that I haven't experienced ever before. 
> >Whenever I try to list the contents of /usr/bin on a remote ssh 
> >connection, it scrolls all the files very quickly, and then it closes 
> >the terminal window. Not only that, all the other terminal windows on 
> >all my other desktops close too, even if I am not logged into any remote 
> >machine on them.
> >
> >I am running gnome on RH 9.0 on my local machine, and different flavors of RH on 
> >the remote machines (RH 7.3, RHEL). When I do this locally on the other 
> >machine, the listing doesn't give me this problem.
> >
> >I guess this might also happen on any directory with a large number of 
> >files like /usr/bin, but I don't have such a directory on my remote 
> >machine right now!
> >
> >Anybody else come across something like this?
> >
> >Saurabh.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 

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Steven Yellin