Alfred von Campe wrote: > Ever since I upgraded all my systems to CentOS 5.1 I have been getting > reports from users about "all their windows disappearing". A little > digging revealed that they meant all gnome-terminal windows. Since > there is only one gnome-terminal process by default for all your open > terminal windows and tabs, a crash of that process means losing all your > terminal windows. These crashes often (but not always) occur over night > when the system is otherwise idle. > > A quick Google search found a problem on Ubuntu related to VTE (the > terminal emulator widget used by gnome-terminal) but not much else of > interest. Has anyone on this list experienced this? I find it hard to > believe I'm the only one. I never saw this issue while running CentOS > 4.X on these systems... > How did you upgrade? I am running CentOS-5 on many workstations that stay on all the time and I have never had the gnome-terminal crash. Is it possible that you have older (possibly orphaned) binaries still installed from the upgrade process? If this is from a NEW install, then we need more info to help. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080529/09205167/attachment-0005.sig>