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. -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070427/87ad2134/attachment-0005.sig>