Bug 113558

Summary:	The newly opened shell/window closes itself immediately
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	thomas <thomas.bsd>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.5.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	FreeBSD
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description thomas 2005-09-29 12:12:22 UTC

Version:           1.5.2 (using KDE 3.4.2, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728
OS:                FreeBSD (i386) release 5.4-RC3

When I click on Session > New Shell, a new shell is started and closes itself immediately. When I click on Session > New Window, a new windows pops up and closes itself immediately. In short, the "New" menu does not work.
Thus the only way to have many konsole sessions running is to starts many instances of the konsole.
This problems occurs whatever shell I use.

Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2005-09-30 14:52:02 UTC

I can't reproduce this on 5-stable with the 3.4.2 packages. Can you reproduce the problem with the kdebase binary package (rather than the port)?

Comment 2 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-09-30 20:41:02 UTC

Does
% konsole --profile=4shells
work?

Comment 3 thomas 2005-10-01 00:32:52 UTC

> Answer to Philip Rodrigues
Hello, I have tried to install manually the following file : ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4.2/src/kdebase-3.4.2.tar.bz2, but unsuccessfully : installation failed after a few lines like this one :
"/usr/x11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to 'pthread_[something]'"
A re-install of the qt33 port did not help.

> Answer to Kurt V. Hindenburg
Hallo, it DOES work. I have a konsole with 4 tabs. The problem seems indeed related to my profile, since I can start root shells from the menu (Session > New Root Shell)

> Additional comments
--- I cannot even start a konsole with eg : "ALT+F2, konsole." The shortcut I use contains : '/usr/local/bin/bash'.
--- If I do : konsole -noclose, the konsole opens but the session is terminated. The title of the window is : "<Finished> - Shell - Konsole"
--- I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 RC3 to FreeBSD 5.4 stable and reinstalled the port kdebase3, but the problem remained.

Thanks Philip & Kurt for your help.

Comment 4 thomas 2005-10-01 01:48:13 UTC

It works now!
My default session in the menu Settings > Configure console > Session is the Shell one. In the field Execute, there was : "clear". I removed these damned five letters and the problem got fixed.
The solution was much simpler than expected (I reinstalled kdebase3...).
BUT I still do not understand why this field contained "clear" (I never filled it) and why it changed the behaviour of the konsole... I don't get the point...
Anyway, it was not a real bug and the konsole now works perfectly.
Bye