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gnome terminal window won't close on exit

Asked by Wesley Michael

I have begun to have a problem on my system where the gnome terminal is not closing when I exit the shell.

I have checked the profile and the value for "When command exits:" is set to "Exit the terminal".

Here is what is happening. If I look at my shell process and it's parents I see this:

wam 5598 4242 1 09:58 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal --geometry=80x37
wam 5603 5598 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helper
wam 5604 5598 0 09:58 pts/6 00:00:00 ksh

After I exit that shell, this is what I'll see

wam 5598 4242 0 09:58 ? 00:00:01 gnome-terminal --geometry=80x37
wam 5603 5598 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helper
wam 5604 5598 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 [ksh] <defunct>

So, the shell process has completed, but it defunct because the parent process, gnome-terminal, isn't acknowledging that it has completed.

I am running Ubuntu 12.04
Linux matrix 3.2.0-55-generic #85-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 2 12:29:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any ideas?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Have you tried xterm?

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Wesley Michael (wam-zoominternet) said : 		#2

Yeah, xterm works fine. When I exit the shell the window closes.

This just started happening about the time I installed the 3.2.0-55 kernel. I doubt that the kernel change did it, it was probably just because that was when I rebooted the machine.

Before that, everything behaved as I would expect.

I have a laptop that also has 12.04 in the same configuration, and it's fine.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

I suggest you report a bug

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