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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Hey,
I don't have any idea what's happened. Whenever I open the terminal program, it's title gets set to "Command completed" and that's that. I can't type anything. Apple's X11 doesn't work, I can't SSH in. What's going on? All i've done recently is I made myself a .xinitrc file, ran Apple's X11 with it, and then deleted the .xinitrc file later. Help!!!!
gabe
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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If you use iTerm ( http://iterm.sourceforge.net), does it give you the same error? If not, it is likely the Terminal.app preferences that have become corrupted. In that case, you should try deleting (or moving aside): ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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For some unknown reason, the terminal sometimes puts a command in the value of the "ExecutionString" property of the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist preferences file. When is does this, you can either erase the value or just delete the preferences file.
If that isn't the problem, it's possible that there is an error in your shell startup scripts, such as ~/.tcshrc or ~/.login. If you have more than one you can move them one at a time to figure out which is causing the problem. Then you can move the offending script back and comment out parts of it until you find the offending line(s).
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Gary
A computer scientist is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell", sees the
"go to", rather than the destination, as harmful.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by Zimwy:
Hey,
I don't have any idea what's happened. Whenever I open the terminal program, it's title gets set to "Command completed" and that's that. I can't type anything. Apple's X11 doesn't work, I can't SSH in. What's going on? All i've done recently is I made myself a .xinitrc file, ran Apple's X11 with it, and then deleted the .xinitrc file later. Help!!!!
gabe
You could create a new user and log in. If that works and you can login as them I guess its a preference screwed up and you will have to move them around until you find the one.
Michael
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Open the Terminal Preferences and check that the "Execute command" radio button is checked and that the textbox says "/bin/tcsh" (unless you've changed your shell, but it doesn't sound like that.)
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