[SOLVED] cannot run gnome-terminal or rxvt

electricaltape · 2010-05-17 04:49:43

I am running Arch 64 with GNOME. Every time that I try to run gnome-terminal, it simply flashes for a split second and disappears. it does not seem that rxvt is even invoked when I click on it, and I am not sure how to proceed.

Here is what I have done:
1.The problem started when I got openbox under GNOME up and running. I thought that openbox did something odd, so I removed it. (I don't think a window manager would damage applications, but I'm kinda knew to swapping them around)
2. I went ahead and got metacity running again.
3. I reinstalled GNOME.
4. I double checked previous forum posts, and I indeed have a default shell (now zsh, see below)
5. I went ahead and installed zsh. It works just fine in tty, and 'echo #SHELL' properly returns '/bin/zsh'

Ideas?

Last edited by electricaltape (2010-05-17 23:28:38)

uwinkelvos · 2010-05-17 04:52:08

does xterm work?

electricaltape · 2010-05-17 04:55:51

Kindoff. I can load it, but I just get an empty window with a cursor and no shell.

uwinkelvos · 2010-05-17 05:50:37

huh, i realy don't know whats going on there. Hopefully someone else can help you!

fsckd · 2010-05-17 07:14:33

compositing? video card? any problems with other x apps or is it only terminals? any error messages?

kazuo · 2010-05-17 09:54:59

try to go to tty and

DISPLAY=:0 gnome-terminal

so you can see if you get any error msg. (correct the display var if needed)

electricaltape · 2010-05-17 14:40:04

The only problem is with terminals; all other applications in X work fine. I don't think it is a driver problem since the terminal only began to misbehave after I installed/uninstalled openbox. I am not sure where to look for error messages; is there some logfile I can check?

I think kazuo is on to something.

 DISPLAY=:0 gnome-terminal

has the output (in tty1)

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyFailed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:

UPDATE : The install I had was pretty fresh anyway, so I just reformatted. Therefore, no more problem.

Last edited by electricaltape (2010-05-17 23:29:00)

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[SOLVED] cannot run gnome-terminal or rxvt

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