Help! Terminal programs auto-enter a command

[az_s_za]

I have no idea what I have done, but every time I start a terminal program (doesn't matter which one) it automatically enters and begins to carry out a command. Its always the same command, which is one I had used just before this started happening.

I guess I have activated a useful feature of my shell How do I stop it?

[gnowak]

Re: Help! Terminal programs auto-enter a command

I guess you are using "Terminal Sessions"?

Then try to power one up.. it could be Shell.

Then Settings -> Configure Konsole... -> Session tab

Execute: What do you have there?


Does this happen when you just run xterm?

[az_s_za]

Re: Help! Terminal programs auto-enter a command

Hi, thanks for answereing.

I have no idea what xterm is.  But this happens with any graphical terminal I have tried, e.g. konsole or konquerer's terminal emulator.

I can't work out how to show a screenshot here of the Konsole session tab you asked about, but when I go there I see:

Linux Console is highlighted under session
Under general it says:
Name: Linux Console
Execute: bash
Directory:

Under properties it says:
Font: default
$TERM: linux
Keytab: XTerm (XFree 4.x.x)
Schema: Linux Colours

If I click on the other session types
$TERM: changes to 'xterm', but Keytab entry remains the same

And by the way, FYI, Ihave no idea what any of this means.

[gnowak]

Re: Help! Terminal programs auto-enter a command

I thought you maybe would have something else under "Execute:" but it was bash. In this case I don't know.. sorry.

[az_s_za]

Re: Help! Terminal programs auto-enter a command

OK.

By the way, there are 2 users of this computer and it only happens to one of them.

Any ideas anyone?

[SheeEttin]

Re: Help! Terminal programs auto-enter a command

Has the person it happens to modified their .bashrc? Look in ~/.bashrc for that user, see if anything would happen that either takes a long time to complete or goes into an infinite loop.

[az_s_za]

Re: Help! Terminal programs auto-enter a command

Well, there was no problem with the .bashrc file, but you set me on the right path, and its now solved:

The .bashrc files for both users were identical, but the user with the problem had a .bash_aliases file. I couldn't see anything in there that would cause a problem, but I deleted all the contents of this file anyway, and that stopped the problem!
I still don't know what part of the .bash_aliases file caused the problem, but I'll just re-introduce my aliases as I need them and see what it was.
I do have a suspect, based on what the terminal was trying to do everytime I opened it. This alias was called 'autounison' (becaue it automated some syncs). Is it a problem beginning an alias with the word 'auto' as I have done?

Thanks for your help. I'm glad this annoyance is over!