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Date:      Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:29:07 -0400
From:      Byron Campbell <wa4geg@netscape.net>
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Terminal crashes upon launch [SOLVED]
Message-ID:  <4C2BB723.3010602@netscape.net>

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 >FreeBSD 8.1 RC-1 AMD64, FreeBSD 8 stable AMD64

 >Gnome 2.30.0, Gnome Terminal 2.30.1

 >Applications, Accessories, Terminal

 >Terminal has intermittent buggy behavior where it begins to open and 
 >immediately crashes. If FireFox is running w/ multiple tabs open, 
 >sometimes closing all but one tab and Terminal will launch OK. At 
 >other times Terminal won't launch even with no other apps. running on 
 >the workspace. But after a few tries Terminal will eventually launch 
 >and run OK.


This appears to be a problem only when the user's default shell is set 
to sh. Setting the user's default shell to something else, i.e. csh and 
I also tested bash, and the Terminal crash issue is no more.

Cheers,
Byron



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