Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal

[Jack Schneider <puck@dp-indexing.com>]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:45 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Thanks, Len I'll try that....

Jack