[lug] RedHat Ent5 Terminal window issue

Steve A Hart Shart at colorado.edu
Thu Aug 21 10:06:25 MDT 2008


Her prompt is exactly like all 150 other users.  It just shows the 
current directory.  Nothing else fancy.

I'm going to reset her gnome terminal settings and see if that does the 
trick.


Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
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> Is it possible that it's prompt related?
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> That is, is she doing something with her prompt string that's
> displaying something from the environment and it occasionally gets
> some information that triggers a bug in the shell?
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> Colors, directory information, ...
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> Steve A Hart wrote:
>> I'm really thinking that it ties back to the users gnome terminal
>> settings since she is the only one experiencing the issue.
>>
>> I'm definitely open to any and all ideas on this one until I find
>> out what's going on.
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> - --
> Ken Weinert
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Steve Hart
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