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Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal



On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:36:02PM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> Tried the failsafe Gnome-Terminal, Terminal is fine when I login as
> alternate-user, but when I login as myself it continues to fail...8-(
> 
> Tried the strace procedure the Jurriaan suggested.  and the diff
> returned a null output.  so it seems that starting gnome-terminal does
> not give a traceable error..  unless I screwed up again...8-)
> I hope I'm not interfering with your day... Thanks for your efforts and
> guidance....

You would have to do something like:

strace gnometerminalprogram 2> logfile

All output from strace is on stderr not stdout.

otherwise you end up with a log containing only the output of the
terminal program, not the strace.

--
Len Sorensen


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