Re: [OT] Question on Terminal
Re: [OT] Question on Terminal
- Subject: Re: [OT] Question on Terminal
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:34:41 -0400
Yeah, actually I had something like this happen to me a while ago and I
couldn't remember where I found the solution. I figured if we poked
around a bit we'd narrow it down. I'm glad to see that you found it
with just my initial guesswork.
I've found that a lot of problems under Mac OS X stem from corruption
of user accounts. Problems overall are pretty rare under Mac OS but if
you have them the first thing to try seems to be to create a new user
and see if that user has the same problems. At least then you have a
chance to see if it is the System or the user account.
- Ken
On Oct 19, 2004, at 10:52 PM, Michael McGonagle wrote:
Bingo, I found something in the
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist with the key of
"ExecutionString", and strangely, it was the key pointing to the
program that keeps trying to launch. I opened the plist in TextEdit,
and removed the key and value pair, and now Terminal will open a
command line prompt.
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.
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.
- 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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