On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:57:55AM -0500, Brian Barnes wrote:
Hello,
I apologize if this isn't quite the right spot to ask, but I did some googling on fc6, rhel5, centos5, terminal closings, etc and came up blank.
Three times since I installed CentOS5 on this machine (11 days ago), I have had ***all my my terminal windows spontaneously exit***.
Usually there's only a single gnome-terminal process for all your windows. You can use --disable-factory to use a single process for each window (that you start from the command-line/icon. Shift+Ctrl+N should reuse the process still).
For example: just now, I have a CD playing, firefox open with a few tabs, and emacs open. I also had ~5 terminal windows open, one for email and four for work. While typing an email on a remote machine in pine, *all* of my terminal windows exited. Just plain disappeared. Everything else, including the emacs copy started from one of those terminals, is running fine.
It's a frustrating thing to see happen! Has anyone else experienced this?
Not on a long time. Check dmesg for the OOM killer. He could be taking out your gnome-terminal (the OOM Killer never was very bright).
Or it could be hw problems that manifest in memory corruption in gnome-terminal.
Or it could be a bug in Centos5 only. I don't use it as a desktop.