Re: Gnome-Terminal/VTE not working for non-root user

["J. Javier Maestro" <jjmaestro computer org>]

Just a very silly guess....

You are not doing anything strange in your bashrc or bash_profile or
profile files in your home (IÅœm assuming you use bash as your shell),
arenÅœt 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,

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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