On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:20 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > 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 > > Hi, all Finally got back to this.. I ran in a login safe gnome-terminal: strace gnome-terminal 2> term_error on both users Speeduke:/home/jack# diff term_error ~puck/term_error > diff_terms Speeduke:/home/jack# less diff_terms Speeduke:/home/jack# man diff Speeduke:/home/jack# diff --suppress-common-lines term_error ~puck/term_error > diff_terms Speeduke:/home/jack# tar cvf diff_terms.tar diff_terms The tarred file is attached.. Hope someone can make some sense out of it... I just don't have the knowledge to get farther... Any suggestions?? Thanks, Jack
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