Comment 10 for bug 157266

Hi, just to let you know that I found a way to leave the prompt open and operational http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-296628.html

Basically you just have to create a script that initiates the command /bin/bash

then if you want to run some specific command whe that shell opens you need to create a custom .bashrcCustom and pass it with the --rcfile option like this:

#! /bin/sh

/bin/bash --rcfile .myCustombashrc

hope this helps someone