After opening and closing several terminal tabs, trying to open another one results in the login shell hanging, and thus being unable to launch any new shells. I've reported this to Apple, but curious if anyone else is having such an issue.
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Login shell hanging
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@inkhorn I had already installed Xcode12. What did you do exactly other than installing Xcode 12 and launching the xcode-beta.app?
@hevaKmaI After reboot it's fine for a bit, and then it happens again. There's never been a time that it hasn't occurred.
I'm starting to feel like it has to do with closing shells. Once you close one or two, it seems to start to occur.
@hevaKmaI After reboot it's fine for a bit, and then it happens again. There's never been a time that it hasn't occurred.
I'm starting to feel like it has to do with closing shells. Once you close one or two, it seems to start to occur.
I had this same issue and rolled back to Catalina because of it.
Have you been using iTerm2? Apparently, disabling "Enable session restoration" under Preferences > Advanced > Session then rebooting fixes it. There's also a nightly build which may fix it although I haven't tried it yet.
I also noticed I was unable to reboot properly after this happened.
More info: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/8965
Have you been using iTerm2? Apparently, disabling "Enable session restoration" under Preferences > Advanced > Session then rebooting fixes it. There's also a nightly build which may fix it although I haven't tried it yet.
I also noticed I was unable to reboot properly after this happened.
More info: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/8965
@dmradge Thanks for this. I checked the issue you linked to and upgraded to the nightly per the comment from the dev. Things seem to be solved. I don't work on the weekend, so we'll see how it works out next week, but so far early tests (opening / closing tabs) seems to indicate that the issue is solved.
With this I did not have to disable session restoration.
With this I did not have to disable session restoration.
Updating to that test version of iTerm2 fixed both my shell problems and the reboot problem I was having (which was probably caused by the login shell stuck-ness).