Ubuntu 18.04 terminal is not responding

When I open gnome-terminal, I see no command prompt. Pressing any button does not help. What can I do to fix my terminal?

1 Answer

Under these circumnstances to be able to edit the .bashrc:

1. Go to the terminal and go to Edit/Preferences/Commands:

   Tick these 2 :

   • Run command as a login shell
   • Run a custom command instead of my shell
     • Custom command: /bin/dash

2. Close and open a new tab in the terminal, you should have a $ and be able to run some basic commands

3. Now you can edit your .bashrc file (in your home directory), copy the content to .bashrc_bad and then preferably delete everything inside .bashrc
4. Save it and run bash to see if it crashes again