[lug] RedHat Ent5 Terminal window issue

[Steve A Hart]

It's the Gnome terminal and the user is reporting that she does have 
some windows with active jobs running that have closed.  There is 
nothing in /var/log/messages that is not normal and her 
~/.xsession-errors is filled with:

** (gnome-terminal:17262): WARNING **: No handler for control sequence 
`device-control-string' defined.

which appears to be a bug in gnome if I'm not mistaken.  Or is this my 
issue?

Steve

Hugh Brown wrote:
> Steve A Hart wrote:
>> I'm just wondering if anyone has come across anything like this 
>> before.  I've got a RHEL 5 client system that at random times (at 
>> least it appears random) all open terminal windows disappear.  
>> Firefox, Thunderbird, and Gnome all stay open and work fine but all 
>> open terminal windows disappear.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> At first thought I wondered if you had a bash TMOUT variable set, but 
> then the terminals would all disappear at different times based on 
> when you last used it.
>
> Which terminal are you using?  If it's gnome-terminal, you could try 
> running konsole or xterm instead to see if it happens with the other 
> terminals.
>
> Does it matter if you are running jobs in the terminals or are they 
> all idle (e.g. if you ran "while (true); do /bin/date; sleep 1s; done" 
> does it still close?
>
> I'd look in /var/log/messages or in ~/.xsession-errors to see if 
> there's any info on what happened.
>
> Hugh

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Steve Hart
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