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Pat R Ellery
Asked: 2015-05-01 09:06:06 +0800 CST

Terminal Closes when I run commands

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I open the "terminal" using the link I have on my unity bar.

If I type: ls -l

I see files.

If I type: find or any other commands, the terminal closes immediately.

This happens after I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade

EDIT: must be something else now since Google Chrome and Skype now won't open.

I get: 

$ /usr/bin/google-chrome

[3903:3903:0430/105632:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(975)] Failed to create socket directory.
[3903:3903:0430/105632:ERROR:chrome_browser_main.cc(1213)] Failed to create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory. This means that running multiple instances would start multiple browser processes rather than opening a new window in the existing process. Aborting now to avoid profile corruption.
gnome-terminal

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The issue is your program don't have access to write to the temporary folder. ls works because it reads the current folder without "saving" anything. find on the other hand "caches" data to the temp folder. If he can't it crash!

    Check your permissions on the /tmp folder.

    ls -la /tmp

    You should get something like this.

    bookofzeus@askubuntu:~$ ls -la /tmp
total 60
drwxrwxrwt 12 root    root    12288 May  9 14:39 .

    Now, check the permissions on the "." It should be writable by everyone.

    If not, then that's your problem.

    Change it to 1777 (sudo chmod 1777)

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  2. It looks like you have the e option set.

    It might have been set in ~/.bashrc: browse to ~/ with nautilus and hit Ctrl+H to show hidden files, then open ~/.bashrc with gedit and remove this line, if not needed:

    set -e
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