From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 21:29:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BA4106566B for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:29:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wa4geg@netscape.net) Received: from imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (imr-ma04.mx.aol.com [64.12.206.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBDC8FC16 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mtaout-ma06.r1000.mx.aol.com (mtaout-ma06.r1000.mx.aol.com [172.29.41.6]) by imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o5ULT8xn001245 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:29:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (72-161-33-40.dyn.centurytel.net [72.161.33.40]) by mtaout-ma06.r1000.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPA id A41C0E0000BA for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:29:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C2BB723.3010602@netscape.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:29:07 -0400 From: Byron Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:395381408:93952408 X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0 x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d29064c2bb72428e8 X-AOL-IP: 72.161.33.40 Subject: Terminal crashes upon launch [SOLVED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:29:17 -0000 >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