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Meiryousa

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Registered: 2012-08-30

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[SOLVED] lxterminal hanging on exit command

I have been messing around for the past 2 days trying to screencast getting system sounds. I installed and uninstalled a ton of things including jack, jack2, pulseaudio, gtk-recordmydesktop, recordmydesktop, vokoscreen and now I have Kazam.  It happened before installing kazam but after kazam it --always-- hangs on exit command.  I uninstalled lxde, my only desktop environment and reinstalled it. rebooted and it still hangs. Any ideas on how to fix it?

[EDIT]

When I first login I can open an lxterminal and exit with the exit command. I open another one and try again and it will hang there.  If I then leave it hanging, open up another lxterminal window if I close one of them by going to file->exit they all close. After this point all of the sessions seem to be linked...

Last edited by Meiryousa (2014-01-11 23:00:02)

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] lxterminal hanging on exit command

open lxterminal from another terminal and see if it shows any errors when it hangs. Try xterm or urxvt.

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Meiryousa

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Re: [SOLVED] lxterminal hanging on exit command

If I open lxterminal with xterm it seems to function correctly...

[EDIT]

I refreshed all the .bash files in ~/ by copying the stuff from /etc/skel/ but it didn't do anything.
I've tried reinstalling lxterminal with xterm and it doesn't fix the problem.
xterm works fine. if lxterminal is initiated by xterm lxterminal will run fine.

Are there lxterminal configuration files stored somewhere that I might not be aware of?
What is /tmp/.lxterminal-socket:0-user? Can I delete it then reinstall lxterminal? Would it make any difference?

Last edited by Meiryousa (2014-01-09 18:00:58)

Meiryousa

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Registered: 2012-08-30

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] lxterminal hanging on exit command

I may have narrowed down the problem.  I can get it to work temporarily. If I follow these steps it works until the next time I reboot then I have to repeat the steps again:

1) uninstall lxterminal
2) delete /tmp/.lxterminal-socket:0-user
3) reboot (this is necessary)
4) install lxterminal

It works perfectly until like I said I shutdown and restart again.

[EDIT]
It has been working for the past couple days and I can only speculate as to why... I got it working doing the steps above and then just didn't reboot at all for the rest of
the day. During this time maybe a configuration file got overwritten that was causing the problem. I shutdown my laptop for the day and woke up. Turned it on and
lxterminal was working fine. Rebooted again and still working... Not sure what happened. I didn't try anything new. I experienced the same thing one other time. I messed
up my lxpanel menu so that there was no items in it, rebooted and rebooted trying different things and there was nothing in it. Went to bed for the night, woke up and it
was working =/. Anyways... everything seems to be working perfectly again... can't complain... x.x

Last edited by Meiryousa (2014-01-11 22:59:44)