On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:51:59PM +0300, Aviv Ben-Yosef wrote:
> Hello,
>
> About a week ago, a weird thing started happening when I logged into
> my account at work.
> After KDE started, whenever I clicked the Konsole button it opened for
> about 2 seconds and then closed. The same thing happened on gnome /
> xfce / blackbox etc, and with gnome-terminal, xterm etc. Even when I
> tried KDE's ALT+F2 (run command) the same thing happened. All the
> terminals opened for 2 seconds or less, and then simply closed.
>
> When I logged in the console and ran the terminal from there, it
> opened just fine in the X display.
>
> After some digging (which means, moving close to every dot-file in my
> home dir and checking what happens) I noticed that when I removed my
> login file the problem disappeared.
> Some more digging showed that the problem was actually this line:
> setenv PATH ${PATH}:/data.dir/program/bin
>
> Once commented out things were great.
> When I moved it to .tcshrc it worked great as well.
> I was able to reproduce this and everything in my account, but not here at
> home.
my csh is rather rusty, but wouldn't it be better to use:
set path ($path /data.dir/program/bin)
IIRC this does set PATH for child processes.
One thing I normally use to debug bourne shell scripts is to add near
the top:
exec &2>/tmp/trace
set -x
Any tcsh equivalent?
>
> I have no clue whatsoever as to what may cause this, and I am pretty
> "stunned" ;)
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what the heck is going on?
>
> A few "background" details - Linux 2.4, kde version at least 1.5 years
> old, and its an organization, so lots of stuff are loaded etc' (group
> environment settings etc).
What distro? What version of tcsh?
-- Tzafrir
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