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gnome-terminal package

Terminal no longer works and now it gives me "There was a problem with the command for this terminal: Text was empty(or contained only whitespace)"

Asked by John Stafford

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 as a virtual machine, everything was working for a day, then I created a shortcut to Terminal on the desktop. Terminal no longer works and now it gives me "There was a problem with the command for this terminal: Text was empty(or contained only whitespace)" when I try the shortcut or running it from the applications menu. What can I do?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #327047.

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John Stafford (alienmindvision) said : 		#1
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John Stafford (alienmindvision) said : 		#2

I figured out that somehow the option for "Run a custom command instead of my shell" became clicked under the "Title and Command" tab in "Profile Preferences". I hope this helps others with this strange deal.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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