gnome terminal recently stopped closing on exit

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jeffk · Post by **jeffk** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:57 pm

I use terminator (multiplexes gnome-terminals) and screen all day. I verified the same behavior on plain gnome-terminal.

When closing terminals by typing 'exit', the cursor disappears, and input is ignored, but the window does not close. Right-clicking the window and choosing the context menu 'close window' truly exits.

Any idea what caused this?

Thanks.

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:05 pm

Open a terminal and from there, start another terminal. That way, you can see what the terminal is saying in the background when you try to exit.

Also, try recompiling it and see if that fixes it (after trying the above). If that doesn't work, you might at least have some error messages to post here.

jeffk · Post by **jeffk** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:34 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. No error output, though. I recompiled gnome-terminal, opened one, and typed 'gnome-terminal'. The prompt returned without blocking, but the new gnome-terminal exhibits the same exit but won't close behavior. No error output appears in the original terminal.

Thanks.

anti00itna · Post by **anti00itna** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:11 pm

If you upgraded to nvidia-driver-180.35 I recommend to downgrade it.

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:11 pm

Hum. Maybe try looking at the dependencies of gnome-terminal and rebuilding those? Or maybe a revdep-rebuild is in order?

jeffk · Post by **jeffk** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:53 pm

anti00itna wrote:If you upgraded to nvidia-driver-180.35 I recommend to downgrade it.

revdep-rebuild finds no broken packages. nvidia-driver-180.35 is the culprit, I emerged that this morning. Thanks for the tip.

Grrr. Closed source drivers have no justification to exist.

justinkb · Post by **justinkb** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:29 pm

thanks for the suggested fix, was annoying the hell out of me...

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:25 am

jeffk wrote: Grrr. Closed source drivers have no justification to exist.

++!

rlittle · Post by **rlittle** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:28 am

Many thanks. I never would have guessed that one.

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:36 pm

Neither would I have. Welcome to the wonderful world of digital technology. It's the mental projection of your digital self.

jeffk · Post by **jeffk** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:49 pm

Does anyone know enough about terminal exit codes to file a bug on this? I would expect some ANSI sequence, since it behaves the same within character modes, such as screen or exiting from su.

Why an X driver would have any isolated symptom from such a thing is beyond comprehension.

jburns · Post by **jburns** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:20 am

This also fixed a problem I had exiting out of a KDE session.

DeathAndTaxes · Post by **DeathAndTaxes** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:30 am

I encountered the exact same issue, only I was also unable to interrupt programs (ctrl-c), background them (ctrl-z) among other amazingly annoying things (gnome-screensaver wouldn't exit, had to be killed from the command line). Downgrading now.

DeathAndTaxes · Post by **DeathAndTaxes** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:33 am

(fixed)

jeffk · Post by **jeffk** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:31 pm

DeathAndTaxes wrote:(fixed)

Fixed as in downgrading the nvidia driver fixes, or someone has found a fix?

Edit: Nevermind, read DeathAndTaxes 2nd-previous post.