After a recent upgrade to
jessie I too am seeing this behavior. Basically what happens is
Eterm is launched, and the
Eterm window is successfully opened up, but the terminal window never displays a shell prompt. I've tested this with behavior against
bash, dash and zsh;
Eterm behaves the same way with all shells. Executing an
strace against the
Eterm process reveals that no shells or shell rc files are being opened, so something is happening prior to
Eterm executing a shell for the user, but after
Eterm has created the new terminal window, and immediately after
Eterm opens up
/etc/group and then
/etc/passwd.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages eterm depends on:
ii libast2 0.7-7
ii libc6 2.19-18
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii libimlib2 1.4.6-2+b3
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii multiarch-support 2.19-18
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
eterm recommends no packages.
eterm suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information