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I have a directory that I'm trying to cd into. It's a simple Rails app my friend built. The weird thing is, when I try to cd into it, the iTerm window closes. I've tried moving it from the directory it's in to the Desktop, but the same thing happens. I can run commands on the directory (like ls) from another directory, but cd'ing into the directory closes the window. I've never seen anything like it. How can I fix this?

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  • Sounds like a shell issue. Dump the results of set.
    – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
    Jul 18, 2013 at 3:11
  • It's quite a lot. Here it is on github as a gist
    – nickcoxdotme
    Jul 18, 2013 at 3:15
  • Run unset rvm_fail and try entering the directory again.
    – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
    Jul 18, 2013 at 3:17
  • Same thing. I also tried in normal Terminal with the same results.
    – nickcoxdotme
    Jul 18, 2013 at 3:18

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Inspired by @Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams's answer, I thought this might have something to do with rvm. I don't know why this would fix it, but when I cd'ed into that directory using Terminal (instead of iTerm), before it hung, it told me that I didn't have the version of Ruby installed that was used by this app. So I ran rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p448. This enabled me to successfully cd into that directory in both Terminal and iTerm2.

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  • It's still in bad taste for it to kill the shell in use though.
    – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
    Jul 18, 2013 at 3:37
  • Oh, definitely. That's why I'd love to know how this is happening.
    – nickcoxdotme
    Jul 18, 2013 at 3:46

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