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I have faced this annoying behavior of terminal in gnome under Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS. Even the first time I open the terminal, it starts blinking and after 1-2 min, gives the message

groups: cannot find name for group ID 1096358339

After that, it operates normally. But every tab in terminal or new terminal, the same story. Any idea why?

And when I try to find the group by 

cat /etc/group | grep "1096358339"

I do not get any output (also running sudo takes ages).

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    You shoud use: cat /etc/group | grep "1096358339"
    – Radu Rădeanu
    Oct 13, 2013 at 11:20
  • typo, I had done that!
    – physiker
    Oct 13, 2013 at 11:27
  • Useless use of cat spotted!!! Please consider grep "1096358339" /etc/group instead.
    – gniourf_gniourf
    Oct 13, 2013 at 11:42

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It looks like your user has been added to an invalid group. Run grep {your username} /etc/passwd and your user-group number is the 4th field (usually a number just before your full name). In Ubuntu you should be in a group of the same name (and number) as your user. For you this is probably set to 1096358339 for some reason, so set it to be the same as the number in the 3rd column, which is your user number.

Also, if this is the case, you may need to fix your files after you change your group or they have invalid ownership. Run chown -R {your username}:{your username} from your home directory, substituting in your yoursername.

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