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Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal



On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:45:14AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> 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??

All I see in that file is 10240 0x00 bytes.  That seems wrong.

Maybe you could try:

strace -o termerrors -ff gnome-terminal

That should generate termerrors.### where ### is the PID of the
gnome-terminal when it runs.

--
Len Sorensen


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