one day, I used Norton in OS9 to check disk and defrag (I've heard Norton horror stories before, but it served me quite well until then). After fixing some problems (things like bad creation date, missing custom icons... all minor problems, and they were supposedly fixed), I restarted and went back to OS X.
when I started terminal, my startup .term file opened, and the window showed up, but after a sec or 2, it disappeared. I quit and relaunched terminal, but same result...
I opened a new window, but same thing happened... I went to preference, and told it to use "/bin/tcsh" instead of default shell. (well, default shell is tcsh, so that shouldn't have made any difference...). I opened a new window and it stayed open, but then I couldn't run most programs... I wondered what's going on... and checked several things... and the running shell was "zsh" for some reason...
I tried to run tcsh, but it just didn't open... I couldn't run programs (like emacs), even if I went to their directories...
the files were there, but they weren't working... so I just had to reinstall 10.1 from the CD.
and well... I decided to give Norton one more chance a few days later... and I didn't have any problem afterwards...
dunno what to say... I'm not really sure of how the problem started, and I couldn't really come up with a quick fix for it either.
