xfce4 terminal not closed after exit

sebastian345 · 2013-11-20 09:30:07

Hi,

I've a problem with my xfce4 terminal since yesterday. After entering 'exit', the terminal will not always be closed correctly. I can not enter any furtehr commands. The recent content is still be displayed. But the window of the terminal is still visible. I can move the widows and resize it. I can close it with the close icon or by pressing Alt+F4. The problem occurs not every time. When trying it several times sequently it is possible that the windows is closed corretly during the first tries but stays visible in the following tries.

xterm does not have the problem. I use bash as shell for both terminals. The logout script .bash_logout is empty. I already tried to add an echo command. But that did not change the situation. When the window stays visible, the echo output is not be displayed.

Yesterday I did not have the problem. I did not change any configuration files since yesterday. I just updated several packages (pacman -Syu) but I can not remember what packages were affacted.

Does anybody know something about that problem? Or can anyone tell me where I can start with the search for solution?

thank you!

regards
Sebastian

Trilby · 2013-11-20 12:48:54

sebastian345 wrote:

I just updated several packages (pacman -Syu) but I can not remember what packages were affacted.

I'm not sure how much it will help, but you can check /var/log/pacman.log for that information. If you post the tail end of that file (with just the timestamp of the last update) we might be able to see something in it.

Last edited by Trilby (2013-11-20 12:50:18)

imp · 2013-11-20 12:54:40

Did you upgrade nvidia to the most recent. It seems it is related. I had the same issue, for now downgraded and it disappear. Can you confirm?

ColdPie · 2013-11-20 15:44:25

Yeah, it's almost certainly due to the new nvidia 331 driver. Downgrading to 325 fixed it, though unfortunately that dragged in an old kernel and virtualbox-host-modules as well.

alejandro.perez · 2013-11-27 07:23:13

I'm affected too. I've been trying to figure it out the cause as it only failed in one of my computers. Now I feel relieved, as it only fails on the one with NVIDIA card.

Thanks!

brettski · 2013-12-02 17:08:05

I am also having this issue. It is intermittent but once it starts the problem is persistent until a reboot.

Would it be more appropriate to file a bug report with xfce-utils or the nvidia driver team?
I feel like a response from xfce is more likely.

ColdPie · 2013-12-03 13:52:58

It's already been reported on the Nvidia forums. See for example:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … -and-exit/

Kilzool · 2013-12-04 22:43:11

Please also see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173024

Aditya Raj Bhatt · 2013-12-06 05:27:57

Reading through, I get the impression that the problem is intermittent and irregular with you people. Not so for me, Ctrl+c works but exit fails each time. I lose my prompt, the cursor simply shifts to a new line and does nothing. Repeatedly typing exit also doesn't do anything (heard that it works for some people). Ctrl+d, Ctrl+z work but to actually exit the terminal (close it) I have to click the close (X) button.

This happened only after I recently upgraded my nvidia graphics driver (Arch linux, full system upgrade). I use Xfce. List of nvidia software installed (running pacman -Qs nvidia) -

local/lib32-nvidia-libgl 331.20-1
NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 331.20-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libcl 1.1-3
OpenCL library and ICD loader from NVIDIA
local/libvdpau 0.7-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia 331.20-1
NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-libgl 331.20-1
NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks
local/nvidia-utils 331.20-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities

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xfce4 terminal not closed after exit

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