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Re: [OT] Question on Terminal


  • Subject: Re: [OT] Question on Terminal
  • From: Michael McGonagle <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:39:10 -0500


On Oct 19, 2004, at 8:38 PM, Graff wrote:

Try opening X11.app, located under /Applications/Utilities/ if you installed Apple's X11 package. It's basically the same thing as Terminal.app except that it uses different technology to display the shell environment. See if this occurs there also. This might help us narrow the problem down.

I don't have the X11.app installed. Is it supposed to be standard for the OS X Server?



Also, try creating a new user through the Mac OS X's System Preferences->Accounts and see if the problems occur when you are logged in as that user.

Well, I created another "superuser" account, and the terminal works fine there.


Might this be something specific to the other user account? Is there some prefs file I can delete? I will dig into that...

Thanks,

Mike


- Ken

On Oct 19, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Michael McGonagle wrote:

I know that this is not about AppleScript, but I don't know where else to ask such a question. If anyone knows of a better place to ask, please let me know.

Basically, I am having trouble with Terminal as it is opening, it tries to run the last command that was run, and then it logs out of the shell. There is, effectively, no way to open up a Terminal window and get a command line prompt.

Is there some preference that is causing this to happen? I went thru the Preferences window, but did not see anything out of the norm. Currently, the preferences are:

Execute the default shell using /usr/bin/login

I have also tried to use the "Execute this command" with a setting of /bin/bash, but that still does the same thing.

This problem has only started today, after I was trying to install the Quark License Server. Quark's tech support basically told me that this is not their problem, as Terminal is an Apple application. All this, despite the fact that this problem DID NOT occur prior to the install of their server.




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