All new sessions ending instantly

[Robert Wagner]

I just updated to a new Mac Studio from an Intel iMac (which also involved jumping from MacOS 10.14(?) to MacOS 13), and iTerm has stopped working.  Whenever I open a new session, it immediately ends, and displays the following alert:

A session ended very soon after starting. Check that the command in profile "Default" is correct.

I've downloaded a new version from the website.  I've verified that the Default profile's command is set to "login shell".  I've deleted both ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist and ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2/.  I've rebooted the computer.  I've tried setting the command to "other shell" with /bin/sh, /bin/bash, /bin/csh, and /bin/zsh.  I've tried setting it to "command" with the above, and even to the command "/bin/echo testing".  I've tried setting iTerm to "Open using Rosetta".  In every single case, when I open a new window with that profile, absolutely nothing shows up other than the "Session Ended" line.

The built-in Terminal program works normally, and it acts as expected when set to run "/bin/echo testing" as its startup command, printing "testing" and then exiting.

[David Stevenson]

iTerm 2 is a Universal binary (both Intel and Apple Silicon), so you won’t need Rosetta.

Are you installing things via Homebrew and referencing them in (say) .bash_profile?  Homebrew now installs stuff under /opt rather than /usr/local/ on ARM.

I’d start by renaming such shell dot files and narrow it down that way.

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[Robert Wagner]

- I didn't expect Rosetta to be needed, but figured I'd try it after everything else failed just in case.  Rosetta is functioning, as I just successfully launched an old application that's marked in Activity Monitor as "Intel".

- I just tried renaming my .profile, .bash_profile, and .bashrc files, but that didn't help.  I wouldn't have expected it to, though, since the default terminal app runs just fine with all the same files in place.

On Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 5:53:18 PM UTC-7 Steven Johnson wrote:

have you set up rosetta 2 ? 

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[Robert Wagner]

Update: Running in a newly-made account didn't help.  That said, something's badly messed up with this system in general- it's a work computer with networked home directories, and apparently something about that system is keeping MacOS from saving any preferences (and possibly other more subtle effects), so that might be the root cause of this error.  I'll post again if that gets resolved and I'm still having issues with iTerm.

[George Nachman]

Set "Prefs>Profiles>Session>After a session ends” to “No Action”. Then make a new tab, which will repro the bug. Close the yellow bar saying the session ended, and see if there’s an error message behind it.

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