[lug] RedHat Ent5 Terminal window issue

[Steve A Hart]

Thanks for the ideas everyone.  It happens roughly once every day or so 
so using strace may not be practical.

I could be wrong but I don't think it's any specific program that is 
causing the problem.  The only program she uses regularly in the 
terminal window is IDL and if this was something IDL was doing, then I'd 
see many more people with the same issue.

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.

Steve

Aaron Nichols wrote:
> If it is happening often enough you could fire up strace against one of the
> terminal processes and dump the output to a file for later analysis. That'll
> probably provide the most direct evidence of what is happening. The user
> should be aware that anything they do in the terminal while you do this is
> subject to analysis.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Steve A Hart <Shart at colorado.edu> 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?
>>
>>
> 

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Steve Hart
Systems Administrator
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
University of Colorado Boulder
shart at colorado.edu
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