gnome terminal recently stopped closing on exit

jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

I use terminator (multiplexes gnome-terminals) and screen all day. I verified the same behavior on plain gnome-terminal.

When closing terminals by typing 'exit', the cursor disappears, and input is ignored, but the window does not close. Right-clicking the window and choosing the context menu 'close window' truly exits.

Any idea what caused this?

Thanks.

audiodef · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject:

Open a terminal and from there, start another terminal. That way, you can see what the terminal is saying in the background when you try to exit.

Also, try recompiling it and see if that fixes it (after trying the above). If that doesn't work, you might at least have some error messages to post here.
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jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

Thanks for the suggestion. No error output, though. I recompiled gnome-terminal, opened one, and typed 'gnome-terminal'. The prompt returned without blocking, but the new gnome-terminal exhibits the same exit but won't close behavior. No error output appears in the original terminal.

Thanks.

anti00itna · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

If you upgraded to nvidia-driver-180.35 I recommend to downgrade it.

audiodef · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject:

Hum. Maybe try looking at the dependencies of gnome-terminal and rebuilding those? Or maybe a revdep-rebuild is in order?
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jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

justinkb · Apprentice Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Posts: 161

thanks for the suggested fix, was annoying the hell out of me...

audiodef

rlittle · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 200

Many thanks. I never would have guessed that one.

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audiodef · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

Neither would I have. Welcome to the wonderful world of digital technology. It's the mental projection of your digital self. :-P

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jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671

Does anyone know enough about terminal exit codes to file a bug on this? I would expect some ANSI sequence, since it behaves the same within character modes, such as screen or exiting from su.

Why an X driver would have any isolated symptom from such a thing is beyond comprehension.

jburns · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:20 am Post subject:

This also fixed a problem I had exiting out of a KDE session.

DeathAndTaxes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 124

I encountered the exact same issue, only I was also unable to interrupt programs (ctrl-c), background them (ctrl-z) among other amazingly annoying things (gnome-screensaver wouldn't exit, had to be killed from the command line). Downgrading now.

DeathAndTaxes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 124

(fixed)

jeffk · l33t Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 671