I am new to BSD so please bear with me.
I have tested this behavior in three different environments, dwm, spectrwm, and xfce.
Basically whenever I issue a command to open any sort of terminal (I tried xterm, lxterm, xfce, and gnome's terminals) as a user the window opens and then closes immediately. I have tried this from menu's, using hotkeys, and by calling a new terminal from a previous one. As root in all three environments the terminals open correctly with no issues.
Non terminal applications open correctly.
What makes this problem strange is that if I issue several commands to open xterm (for example, but the others as well) using a hotkey eventually one will open and stay open. An error I can see when I close X that I think might be related to this is "getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping for 30 seconds", but I think that this is related to the terminals that stay open, not the ones that close immediatley. My user is a part of the wheel and operator groups.
It is strange to me that:
1. Root has no issues (which makes me think it's an issue with permissions)
2. If I issue several quick commands to open the terminal finally one opens (which makes me think it is NOT permissions)
Is there a log I can look in to invesigate this issue further?
Thanks.
I have tested this behavior in three different environments, dwm, spectrwm, and xfce.
Basically whenever I issue a command to open any sort of terminal (I tried xterm, lxterm, xfce, and gnome's terminals) as a user the window opens and then closes immediately. I have tried this from menu's, using hotkeys, and by calling a new terminal from a previous one. As root in all three environments the terminals open correctly with no issues.
Non terminal applications open correctly.
What makes this problem strange is that if I issue several commands to open xterm (for example, but the others as well) using a hotkey eventually one will open and stay open. An error I can see when I close X that I think might be related to this is "getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping for 30 seconds", but I think that this is related to the terminals that stay open, not the ones that close immediatley. My user is a part of the wheel and operator groups.
It is strange to me that:
1. Root has no issues (which makes me think it's an issue with permissions)
2. If I issue several quick commands to open the terminal finally one opens (which makes me think it is NOT permissions)
Is there a log I can look in to invesigate this issue further?
Thanks.