Terminal and 'Process Completed' error

Nov 05, '00 11:03:37PM

Contributed by: robg

If you try to launch the terminal app, and it opens a window but then says "Process Completed" and won't let you do anything, it's probably a problem with your tcsh (shell) file.

You can use the default shell by picking "Run Command" under the "Shell" menu, and typing

/bin/sh
Once that starts, "cd /bin," and "ls tcsh." If the file length is zero, you have a problem.

If you want tcsh back, the only option appears to be reinstalling OS X. For some people (like me), this was trivial, and it simply repaired itself. Others lost all their settings and had to start from scratch.

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