Terminal wonkiness

[lamina]

When I fire up Terminal, I get this message:

Last login: Sat May 19 02:09:22 on console
/Volumes/PortableOSX.localized/PortableOSX.app/Contents/Resources/Engine/posx.sh; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
michael-risis-powerbook59:~ Mike$ /Volumes/PortableOSX.localized/PortableOSX.app/Contents/Resources/Engine/posx.sh; exit
-bash: /Volumes/PortableOSX.localized/PortableOSX.app/Contents/Resources/Engine/posx.sh: No such file or directory
logout
defaul[Process completed]

I attempted installing PortableOSX on a flash drive I have, it didn't work, but I'm not sure why this is affecting my terminal... Any ideas?

 

[Winterfell]

The first thing I would do would be to check your Terminal profile settings to see if anything in there has changed.

If you have a .profile or .bashrc file in your /Users/<username>/ directory, take a look at those. If I had to guess, I would say that is where the problem lies.

 

[lamina]

Thanks for your suggestion. How do I get to these files? They don't show up in Spotlight or Finder, since they're hidden files.

 

[robbieduncan]

Well, since your using the Terminal you could use your favourite Unix editor to edit the files. Or start open a Terminal window and type

open .profile

for example.

 

[lamina]

Since I can't access Terminal on my account, I made another and edited my .profile file. I didn't see anything about my error there (nothing about /Volumes/PortableOSX, etc). I'm glad that terminal works on another account, but I'd really like to have it working on my account. Maybe a reboot will help...

 

[lamina]

... and it didn't. I am so frustrated about this.

This happened when I tried to install PortableOSX on my flash drive, just for fun. When I re-mount the PortableOSX image, it executes the script to install on my flash drive. How can I stop this from happening? I have set the Terminal app not to run a script when it's starting, but this problem still persists.

 

[lamina]

Alright here's an update for everyone.

I deleted the .plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.terminal.plist. It worked, and now my Terminal is back to the way it was.

I updated this post for archival purposes.