Version: 2.5.2 (using KDE 4.5.2) OS: FreeBSD konsole is set to execute /bin/sh. ~/.profile sets $ENV to ~/.shrc. ~/.shrc contains set -o emacs, and it breaks konsole. set -E breaks console, too. set built-in of /bin/sh seems to break konsole. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Prepare FreeBSD 8.1 and Install KDE 4.5.2 make sure ~/.profile exports ENV execute konsole twice, and konsole breaks every time.
A simple search implies this problem did happen to some users[1][2][3][4]. However, I can't reproduce it with konsole-2.5.4 in FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE. So maybe that is a problem of /bin/sh shipped in FreeBSD? Can you still reproduce this in newer version? [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-8605.html [2] http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-19335.html [3] http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-1067.html [4] http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=91364&p=177390&hilit=konsole#p177390