As seen on upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565328 with gnome-terminal-2.26.1 each time I open a new tab CWD is / instead of $HOME or previous working directory. Upstream trunk has a couple of patches but still doesn't fix 100% http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=49a7538e4645db1e143acb8db824d3dd190a3a3e http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=08d8540d63ccccaa02c18af832f5329b38bcc1ec
*** Bug 282763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm completely unable to reproduce this using any of the test cases in the upstream bug, using gnome-terminal-2.26.3.1. Does this still happen for you? If so, could you post steps to reproduce?
@Daniel: 1)° Open gnome-terminal 2)° su 3)° cd /usr/portage/distfiles # (for example) 4)° Open a new tab --> the new tab is opened on /
Fixed into the main tree with a revision bump for the last version, ie 2.26.3.1-r1. Thanks for reporting