[lug] RedHat Ent5 Terminal window issue

[Hugh Brown]

I'd try to see if it is profile related or box related.  Does the 
behavior follow her to a different box?

Can you move her .gnome* .gconf* dirs out of the way and have it happen 
again?  Has she created custom gnome-terminal profiles?

Try starting an xterm and then launching the gnome terminals from that. 
  When they all die, maybe they'll leave an error message in the xterm 
(assuming it doesn't kill the xterm too).

rpm -Va to see if there's any oddness in the packages.

Hugh

Steve A Hart wrote:
> I'm the only admin and it's only happening to this one user.  All the 
> rest of my 40 RHEL 5 systems seem to work fine.  So if it is someone 
> playing a trick, they better hope to hell that I don't find out who it 
> is!  Can we say "rm -rf *" in their home directory?
> 
> hehe
> 
> I don't think it's a trick, it's just very odd.
> 
> Nate Duehr 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.
>>
>> Got any malicious friends playing a practical joke on you?
>>
>> This is a favorite of one of my friends -- if you leave him a way to 
>> log into your box.
>>
>> A quick shell script to loop and find all your xterms and kill them, 
>> sleep a bit, and do it all again -- then pop it into the background 
>> with a nohup and log out...
>>
>> And you wonder why your terminal windows keep disappearing right after 
>> you launch them.  :-)
>>
>> Nate
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