unresponsive terminal after installing Macports Python PIL

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 28, 2011, at 18:21, John Stoner wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> Rebooting your computer is almost never necessary. I imagine you'd've gotten the same result (properly functioning terminal) by closing the nonfunctional terminal window and making a new one (Shell menu: New Window). I use the terminal a lot, making dozens of terminal windows over the course of a day, and several times a day I get a nonfunctional terminal window as you describe, particularly if I've just closed another terminal window a second ago. I don't remember this happening before upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I don't know what causes it but it doesn't overly concern me; I just make another window and move on. I doubt it has anything to do with MacPorts.
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> Nope. 
> 
> It's never happened to me before today, and I've used Snow Leopard for months. Starting new windows didn't fix it. Killing the terminal app didn't fix it. Switching to a different terminal app (iTerm) didn't fix it. Rebooting did. 
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> I don't know whether it has anything to do with Macports, really. I use Macports once in a great while. This might be the first time since I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I used it last night, and this happened. If it happens to you several times a day and you use MacPorts a lot, maybe it is related.

I guess my situation isn't the same as yours then. As I said, making a new terminal window fixes it for me.

I still don't see how MacPorts could affect the functioning of your terminal application.