Xterm immediately closes after I launch it

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1

I am running OpenSuse version 13.2 32 bit on a Optiplex 745 box.

I did a clean install and was able to utilize xterm without problems.

I then installed some additional software - rebooted the system - and now xterm closes immediately after I open it.

I have attempted to do a google search / forum search but have found nothing.

I did find something for Ubuntu regarding this exact thing - but I am not sure that it applies to OpenSuse ?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/432476/terminal-closes-immediately-after-open

2

I checked the .profile file that the thread discusses and this is what it contains.

Sample .profile for SuSE Linux

rewritten by Christian Steinruecken <cstein@suse.de>

This file is read each time a login shell is started.

All other interactive shells will only read .bashrc; this is particularly

important for language settings, see below.

test -z “$PROFILEREAD” && . /etc/profile || true

Most applications support several languages for their output.

To make use of this feature, simply uncomment one of the lines below or

add your own one (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias for more codes)

This overwrites the system default set in /etc/sysconfig/language

in the variable RC_LANG.

#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for Spanish output

Some people don’t like fortune. If you uncomment the following lines,

you will have a fortune each time you log in :wink:

#if -x /usr/bin/fortune ] ; then

echo

/usr/bin/fortune

echo

#fi

3

One of the people in the thread on the Ubuntu page tried commentning out the line referring to the ./etc/profile
I did that - problem solved.

( I highlighted the line.)

Sample .profile for SuSE Linux

rewritten by Christian Steinruecken <cstein@suse.de>

This file is read each time a login shell is started.

All other interactive shells will only read .bashrc; this is particularly

important for language settings, see below.

test -z “$PROFILEREAD” && . /etc/profile || true

Most applications support several languages for their output.

To make use of this feature, simply uncomment one of the lines below or

add your own one (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias for more codes)

This overwrites the system default set in /etc/sysconfig/language

in the variable RC_LANG.

#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for Spanish output

Some people don’t like fortune. If you uncomment the following lines,

you will have a fortune each time you log in :wink:

#if -x /usr/bin/fortune ] ; then

echo

/usr/bin/fortune

echo

#fi[/QUOTE]

I answered my own quesiton !

Hope this helps some one else in the future :slight_smile:

Keep up the Fantastic work with OpenSuse !