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Each time I open GNOME Terminal I have to hit CTRL+C to use it. It's pretty annoying.

It starts with a cursor only (I can type, but hitting ENTER just moves the cursor to a new line so it's useless) and a window tittle saying: Terminal instead of what's in the prompt as it should. It's the same no matter how I start it (with CTRL+ALT+T, as a new tab or from another application) and as far as I can remember this behavior started for no discernible reason. And to my dismay it also survived an upgrade from zesty to artful.

I tried creating a new profile, but it didn't help.

I vaguely remember having the same issue a couple years ago and it just went away on its own. Somehow. I counted it's gonna be the same this time, but alas, no luck this time. It's been too long, the issue persists and it's driving me crazy. Help!

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    Maybe try replacing the .profile and the .bashrc files in your home folder with the default ones found in the /etc/skel folder. I would backup the ones in your home folder first though. And make sure you change the ownership of the files in your home folder to your user sudo chown $USER:$USER .profile .bashrc – Terrance Jan 18 '18 at 21:31
  • Thx, this helped! As it turns out a single cowsay line in .bashrc was the culprit: cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows | shuf -n 1 | cut -d. -f1) $(whatis $(ls /bin) 2>/dev/null | shuf -n 1). If you care to make an answer out of this, I'll upvote it and accept it. – z33k Jan 19 '18 at 0:20
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Check if you don't have a cowsay line in your .bashrc. Something like:

cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows | shuf -n 1 | cut -d. -f1) $(whatis $(ls /bin) 2>/dev/null | shuf -n 1)

If you do, comment out/delete it.

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