After a recent upgrade to *jessie* I too am seeing this behavior. Basically what happens is *Eterm* is launched, and the *Eterm* window is successfully opened up, but the terminal window never displays a shell prompt. I've tested this with behavior against *bash, dash and zsh*; *Eterm* behaves the same way with all shells. Executing an *strace* against the *Eterm* process reveals that no shells or shell rc files are being opened, so something is happening prior to *Eterm* executing a shell for the user, but after *Eterm* has created the new terminal window, and immediately after *Eterm* opens up */etc/group* and then */etc/passwd*.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages eterm depends on: ii libast2 0.7-7 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libimlib2 1.4.6-2+b3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii multiarch-support 2.19-18 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 eterm recommends no packages. eterm suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
