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