Terminal stuck at empty screen

Question

The terminal app is stuck on a window like the following and doesn't respond to

• Reopen,
• File > Reset, hard reset.
• Renaming .bash_profile and reopen.
• Opening other profiles.

Last time I used it, it was for a nodejs server. After I was done using the server, I closed the Terminal window and hit Terminate when it asked if it should kill running processes.

Answer 1

Fire up Activity Monitor and kill the process(es) named "node".