I can see from your original email that I missed the "(and/or any other terminals I'm using, for example SSH from another machine)" part. :\ Derp on my part!
Have you modified your /etc/bash_profile at all? I would assume that if this is a clean install the software should be fine... If you feel adventurous, check out the man pages for "strace" and do an strace on bash itself :) There may be some errors popping up that are not clear from just running it. -Chris On 2011-11-17, at 9:35 AM, Yi Ding wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions Chris. The reason I think it's a global > terminal issue rather than a GNOME terminal problem is that it also > happens when I SSH in from my windows machine (which is on the same > LAN). Also, programs running inside the terminal will slow down, for > example top will refresh slower than it would normally. It also > affects everyone who's logged in, not just me. > > Cheers, > Yi > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Christopher Tooley <[email protected]> wrote: >> I haven't experienced this myself, but I can offer some possible >> troubleshooting tips :) >> >> See if it happens in xterm as well. If so, it might have something to do >> with your bashrc or bash_profile (if you're using bash, that is, others have >> different preference files) >> >> If it doesn't slow down in xterm, try konsole to double check that it's >> something up with gnome-terminal and/or launch gnome-terminal from xterm, >> there may be some error statements being flushed to STDIN that may help >> diagnose it... >> >> -Chris >> >> On 2011-11-17, at 6:02 AM, Yi Ding wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> First time scientific linux user. I'm having a strange issue that I >>> haven't seen on any other installation. Basically at random >>> intervals, my GNOME Terminal (and/or any other terminals I'm using, >>> for example SSH from another machine) slows down to a crawl. This >>> slowness doesn't seem to affect my GUI applications, and when I run >>> top, there's no signs of high cpu or memory usage. >>> >>> Has anyone else had this problem? Can someone suggest a solution? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Yi >> >>
