Gnome Terminal freeze

1. Which Ubuntu release?

2. How do you open the terminal (keyboard shortcut, mouseclick, ..)?

3. Is there anything strange in your bash profile that may cause a loop?

Hi Manfred Hampl

Which Ubuntu release?
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

2. How do you open the terminal (keyboard shortcut, mouseclick, ..)? mouseclick

3. Is there anything strange in your bash profile that may cause a loop? i dont know

Do you see the same behavior when you start the terminal by simultaneously pressing ctrl-alt-t?

Did you modify any of the startup scrips (~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile ... )?
If yes, what's their current contents?

The bash completion part looks weird. I'm not in front of my system to check though.

Hello Actionparsnip,

Can you please help on this

Ah ok, it is OK. Just checked mine now.

If you log off, then press CTRL + ALT + F1 on the login screen, can you log in to the command line there and be OK?

yes this seems to be ok.......

Ah OK cool. If you run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y full-upgrade
sudo apt --reinstall install gnome-terminal
sudo reboot

Does it help?

I have tried the steps provided by you but still it doesn't help.
Any other solution?

Just to verify the version, what is the output of

apt policy gnome-terminal

gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04
  Candidate: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04
  Version table:
 *** 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04 500

Is this the full output? If yes, then something is wrong with your package management.

gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04
  Candidate: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04
  Version table:
 *** 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.36.1.1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

Ok, that's normal output.

Do you have any gnome extensions installed?

What exactly happens when you start a terminal? Do you see the new window (or not), what is shown in the terminal, etc.?
When you have one terminal window open, can you create a new window, and does this work then, or is it freezing as well?

when i open the terminal it freezes and doesn't show anything like a blank screen.

The only way to "enforce" it to start being responsive, is to hit CTRL+C, which results in bash/profile stopped to load. However, this renders the terminal being useless
sometimes while working in the middle it freeze.

If you launch xterm instead, is it OK?

never tried xterm but when start bash from within a shell it shows nothing and when tried to run on different shell like zsh which shows new user prompt.

OK in ZSH, run:

cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc-2022-07-22
sudo cp /root/.bashrc ~/.bashrc
sudo chown foo:foo ~/.bashrc

Then try BASH. You will need to change "foo" for your username. I don't know if ZSH has the $USER variable. E.g

sudo chown andy:andy ~/.bashrc

Then use Gnome-Terminal as normal.

So what i understand from the solution is the bashrc file is being created similar to the one in /root ...so basically default and which would make the changes in the current state and assigning the ownership with my username.

so i would loose the minor changes with aliases which was done few months back?

In the file used, yes. We have renamed the existing file so you can add what you need later. We need to get the shell functional first