[gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

[gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

[Hareesh Nagarajan]

Hi All:

Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on
the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows
nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they
were spawned.

When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never makes
it to the screen.

I have no idea why I am facing this problem, because in the last boot it worked.

Any hints?

Thanks,

Hareesh

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Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

[Mariusz Pękala]

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On 2005-07-25 01:48:32 -0700 (Mon, Jul), Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on
> the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows
> nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they
> were spawned.

I don't thing that the variable TERM holds the proper terminal-program
name. It's your current terminal type.

pgrep -l term
or
ps -ef | grep term
   seems better.

> When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never makes
> it to the screen.

check the file ~/.xsession-errors - all stdout and stderr could go
there.

> I have no idea why I am facing this problem, because in the last boot it worked.
> 
> Any hints?

did you do some upgrade recently?

run revdep-rebuild ?

run:  eterm (or whatever) > some_log_file 2>&1

maybe some problem with fonts ?

bash initialization problem?

HTH

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Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

[monotux]

Have you compiled a new kernel recently?
When terminals behave like that, usually that means that you haven't compiled 
in "legacy (bsd) pty support" in your kernel (Device Drivers -> Character 
devices)...

Oscar

Monday 25 July 2005 10.48 skrev Hareesh Nagarajan:
> Hi All:
>
> Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on
> the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows
> nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they
> were spawned.
>
> When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never makes
> it to the screen.
>
> I have no idea why I am facing this problem, because in the last boot it
> worked.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hareesh
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

[Hareesh Nagarajan]

Hi Oscar,

You were correct. During my last boot, I booted into the mm kernel
(which did not have BSD PTY support), when I wasn't by the grub
screen.

Thanks a lot,

Hareesh

On 7/25/05, monotux@gmail.com <monotux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you compiled a new kernel recently?
> When terminals behave like that, usually that means that you haven't compiled
> in "legacy (bsd) pty support" in your kernel (Device Drivers -> Character
> devices)...
> 
> Oscar
> 
> Monday 25 July 2005 10.48 skrev Hareesh Nagarajan:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on
> > the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows
> > nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they
> > were spawned.
> >
> > When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never makes
> > it to the screen.
> >
> > I have no idea why I am facing this problem, because in the last boot it
> > worked.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hareesh
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> 
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

[Hareesh Nagarajan]

Hey Mariusz,

Thanks for the tip.

Hareesh

On 7/25/05, Mariusz Pękala <skoot@qi.pl> wrote:
> On 2005-07-25 01:48:32 -0700 (Mon, Jul), Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on
> > the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows
> > nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they
> > were spawned.
> 
> I don't thing that the variable TERM holds the proper terminal-program
> name. It's your current terminal type.
> 
> pgrep -l term
> or
> ps -ef | grep term
>    seems better.
> 
> > When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never makes
> > it to the screen.
> 
> check the file ~/.xsession-errors - all stdout and stderr could go
> there.
> 
> > I have no idea why I am facing this problem, because in the last boot it worked.
> >
> > Any hints?
> 
> did you do some upgrade recently?
> 
> run revdep-rebuild ?
> 
> run:  eterm (or whatever) > some_log_file 2>&1
> 
> maybe some problem with fonts ?
> 
> bash initialization problem?
> 
> HTH
> 
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> 
>

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