Tilda crashing if user's shell is zsh

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański]

I cannot start Tilda from nearly clean Ubuntu 8.10 installation. when the shell is zsh.

[David A. Harding (dmaharding)]

Hi Wawrzek,

I need a little extra information. Can you please install the strace package and then run the following command from the command line:

strace -o tilda.strace.txt tilda

After tilda fails to run again, please attach tilda.strace.txt to this bug.

Thank You,

-Dave

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

Thanks for quick response. The file as requested. Anything else? I'm rather poweruser so don't hesitate to ask for more complicated actions.

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

I installed Fedor 10 and Tilda worked ok from it.

Later I started tilda from my wife account it it worked fine. So it can be related to my config. Which files should I check?

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

tilda -c bash works fine. My default shell is zsh.

[Cosmin L (lcosmin)]

This seems to also affect me. I have tilda starting up automatically with the Gnome session, but when I push the hotkey, there's no shell (zsh), only a black window.
The context menu of the window is working, new tab / close tab are working but no shell appears.

The solution for me was to use properties and to replace the default shell with a custom command, "zsh". This way it's working for me.

% dpkg --status tilda
Package: tilda
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 588
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.09.6-1
Provides: x-terminal-emulator
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libconfuse0 (>= 2.5-1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.6.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.2), libvte9 (>= 1:0.16.9), libx11-6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

% dpkg --status zsh
Package: zsh
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: shells
Installed-Size: 11540
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4.3.6-4ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcap1, libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
Recommends: libpcre3 (>= 7.4)
Suggests: zsh-doc
Conflicts: pdksh (<< 5.2.14-18)
Conffiles:
 /etc/zsh/zlogin 48032df2ace0977f2491b016e3c421a3
 /etc/zsh/zlogout b73789c3e790b855302ce10ca076037a
 /etc/zsh/zprofile 58c4f65d775c055b5d80b67c1bd12838
 /etc/zsh/zshenv 5a8a0ff4f6ff945a5aa6ba7f6f1e8c97
 /etc/zsh/zshrc e069ba51ba293da1aeddd5779324df19
Description: A shell with lots of features
 Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) usable as an
 interactive login shell and as a shell script command
 processor. Of the standard shells, zsh most closely resembles
 ksh but includes many enhancements. Zsh has command-line editing,
 built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion,
 shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a
 host of other features.
Homepage: http://www.zsh.org/
Original-Maintainer: Clint Adams <email address hidden>

I've attached a strace log on tilda, with it configured to run the default shell, from a gnome terminal. After pressing the hotkey and waiting for a couple of seconds (tilda window pops up but no zsh), i've ctrl+c'd strace.

[Cosmin L (lcosmin)]

Any updates on this? It keeps happening on ubuntu 9.04

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

2009/7/8 DragonK <email address hidden>:
> Any updates on this? It keeps happening on ubuntu 9.04
>

I started to use Yakuke (or however it's called), but I can try Tilda later on.

Wawrzek
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[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

9.04 - not better:

 tilda
zsh: segmentation fault tilda

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

9.10 - not better

[Pierre Chef (pierre.chef)]

Duplicate of #381787

This solution worked for me : http://anurag-priyam.blogspot.com/2009/06/zsh-and-tilda.html

[Legolas (aka-wood-elf)]

And in 10.04 too =(