Re: Problem with su -

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On 06/03/12 09:29, jdow wrote:
On 2012/03/06 01:49, Bob Goodwin wrote:
       [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

Bob, it's this line. Find it by looking for the line below it:
shopt -s checkwinsize

Your /etc/bashrc file is not getting run in the case you cite, using
an unadorned "su" to get to root privileges but not root configuration.
So you've intentionally or unintentionally done something which prevents
/etc/bashrc from getting run during the configuration phase just after
entering the root password for "su".

So far nobody else seems to be saying "me too". So my conclusion is that
something you did messed it up. This is a maze of twisty little passages.
It may be hard to figure it out.


       Yes, I am certain it is not a general Fedora problem, never
       meant to imply that. I think it began when I had a problem with
       yum install Thunar, I barely recall the sequence but I simply
       uninstalled and started over, finished what I was working on and
       the didn't turn on the computer over the weekend, found problem
       Monday morning.


The tentative obvious solution is to not use "su". Instead make it a proper login shell using "su -". (I'm not sure there's a good case to use "su" alone, ever. You generally use su to get a shell that behaves like a root shell with
all the root utilities available without having to use full path names.)

       Usually if I try to do something and it tells me I need root
       permissions I simply do su not su -, rarely need the latter, but
       perhaps there is something I am missing there? I tend to just do
       what works for me which may not be best ...



{^_^}

All is happiness and light now after the last go-around:


   "You mean you don't have a /root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc ???

   The "good box"???

   If you don't have them....copy them from the good box....



           Did that and that appears to have corrected the problem!

           I thought I had determined those files were present earlier but
           it appears that I got confused with copying between users and
           computers. My apologies if I have prolonged the pain. "

   Thanks for the help,

   Bob


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