Can not start a terminal

Describe the bug

Sometimes I can not start a terminal. I can not reproduce it permanently. Please see a screenshot.

Che version

• latest
• nightly
• other: please specify

Steps to reproduce

1. Create and start a workspace from dashboard
2. Go to Terminal -> Open Terminal in specific container

Expected behavior: list of containers is displayed to select the corresponding container for starting a terminal.

Actual behavior: a terminal widget is displayed, but a terminal is not started. There is an error in browser console.

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Failed to start terminal. Cause: Error: Couldn't parse params
    at n.<anonymous> (theia.0fdc8ed05bd4da17210d.js:1)
    at theia.0fdc8ed05bd4da17210d.js:1
    at Object.throw (theia.0fdc8ed05bd4da17210d.js:1)
    at s (theia.0fdc8ed05bd4da17210d.js:1)

Runtime

• kubernetes (include output of kubectl version)
• Openshift (include output of oc version)
• minikube (include output of minikube version and kubectl version)
• minishift (include output of minishift version and oc version)
• docker-desktop + K8S (include output of docker version and kubectl version)
• other: (please specify)

Screenshots

Installation method

• chectl
• che-operator
• minishift-addon
• I don’t know

Environment

• my computer
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
• Cloud
  • Amazon
  • Azure
  • GCE
  • other (please specify)
• other: please specify

[vitaliy-guliy]

I didn’t check the logs, will do it next time when I face the error.

[AndrienkoAleksandr]

OK, Stable steps to reproduce:

1. Open terminal widget.
2. Launch some not endless che task.
3. When task done click on the task widget and type some character.
4. Await few seconds. Select terminal widget and try to type something.

Actual result: opened terminal stopped work.

@RomanNikitenko thanks for reporting issue. @vitaliy-guliy thanks a lot too, your screenshot is relevant too.

@vparfonov Sorry, about this one https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/16601#issuecomment-617080360 I am not sure. I didn’t faced with such behavior.