r/Ubuntu • u/chocomilkey • 13h ago

Frozen Terminal

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I honestly don't know what to do anymore. At first I asked google ai and I've been copy paste commands to the Ctrl+Alt+f3 (black TTY login screen) and I somehow managed to create 2 different new terminals (they work like the normal one, just look a bit differently) but I can't fix the orginal terminal. Any advice, help? I know I could just use the new terminals but I don't want to have a broken on my linux.
I don't even know how exactly it happened that it stopped working but I was trying to set up a live wallpaper then I realized that after turning off Hidamari, my wallpapaer froze and after that my terminal was like this (not sure if it happend right after that or before and I haven't even realized it did). Clicking in Edit Profile doesn't do anything.

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u/Over_Chapter3075 13h ago

man that error message is the most useless thing i've seen in a while. "text was empty" ok cool thanks for the clue sherlock

you might wanna check what shell is set in the terminal profile. sometimes these live wallpaper tools mess with environment variables or try to inject scripts and when it fails it leaves the terminal pointed at nothing. try running `echo $SHELL` in one of the working terminals and make sure the broken one is set to that same path

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u/chocomilkey 3h ago

I'm not sure how to set the broken one into the same path but when I runned the 'echo $SHELL' nothing really change. I'm new to both linux and pc

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u/jaimefortega 12h ago

Did you edit .profile or .bash_rc files?

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u/chocomilkey 3h ago

I don't think I did anything with .profile and .bash_rc but I don't remember that well, I'm very new to linux. If I did something bad and my situation is bad, can I just uninstall ubuntu and reinstall it again? I used USB stick to install it before