Bug 17636 – GNOME terminal won't stay open when using gdm

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description BlockFin 2003-03-16 12:52:56 UTC]

The GNOME terminal stays open for only an instant if I log in through gdm.  It 
works fine when using startx, and Konsole works in KDE when using startx.

Athlon TBird 900
256MB RAM
Linux kernel 2.4.19
GNOME 2.2 (2.2.0?)

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-03-16 13:23:40 UTC]

any console output when you try to run it (run it in an xterm or something) ?

[Comment 2 BlockFin 2003-03-16 14:26:49 UTC]

I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even think of running it from xterm.

Also, I tried searching bugzilla for "xdm," instead of "gdm," and I came up with this:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15844

I believe it's related to my problem.  I'll try xterm a bit later and see what it comes up with.

[Comment 3 BlockFin 2003-03-18 01:13:41 UTC]

Sorry for the delay.  Running gnome-terminal from xterm gives no output.

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-03-25 08:15:49 UTC]

you say when you 'login trough gdm' ? if you run gnome-terminal from clean X does it also fail ? In that case it's most likely that you don't have a shell set for your user.

[Comment 5 BlockFin 2003-03-25 09:30:03 UTC]

It works fine through startx.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2003-04-25 09:38:59 UTC]

hm never saw your answer, but better late then never : did you have a shell set for your user ? If not, thats most likely the problem

Closing, since its old, reopen if needed reporter.

[Comment 7 BlockFin 2003-04-25 21:05:40 UTC]

Yes, I do have a shell set for this user.

I will try emerging XFree 4.3 as mentioned in the bug I referred to earlier, but it'll take me some weeks to get the time (and desire) to get it done.