[CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

Fri Aug 27 23:21:14 UTC 2010
Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au>

On 08/28/2010 01:40 AM, didi wrote:
> Hey
> 
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> just wondering if you also experience gnome terminals freezing after a while...?
>> It mainly happens over the week-end.
>> I would leave a terminal open (with an ssh session to a remote site), come back
>> on monday and type a few commands and it jwould just freeze.
>> But it also happen from time to time randomly during the day (but still with
>> days old terminals).
>> Happens to my collegues too.
>> The Gnome terminal Reset option would not do anything.
>> any idea what could be the problem?
> 
> Maybe have a look at the strace. But if you have an ssh session open
> chances are, that timed out.

In which case the escape sequence '~.' should close the connection and
give you could terminal back.

Kal