On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:25, Colburn wrote: > Arindam Dey wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:55, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > >>On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:23:39AM -0400, Colburn wrote: > >> > >>>I have Shrike loaded on the desktop but when as a non-root user I open > >>>Terminal I get no Bash prompt. > >>> > >>I am not sure what is not happening. Do you mean you don't get a > >>prompt on a line in the terminal ending with $? > >>THe default shell is set in the /etc/passwd entry for the user. The > >>prompt you get is set by the PROMPT command. Do a man bash and search > >>for PROMPT. > > > > > > Umm you still have not come out and said what do you mean by no bash > > prompt. How about typing up for the list what you actually see after you > > log in on a tty. That may be helpful. > > No Bash prompt = Terminal opens to a 100% blank screen that is unresponsive. > > "I open Terminal I get no Bash prompt." Oh ok understood :-). How about the permissions on your /dev/tty[0-9] ? before and after you login. Also the permissions on your /etc/passwd although if this one is screwed up the prompt will be different not a blank screen.If I am not mistaken. Can you log into the command prompt through GUI(konsole or gnome-terminal) ? If yes then try and see ps aux | grep mingetty (mingetty is default on RH if you have changed it to agetty or something else grep the appropriate *getty). See after logging in if the owner of the *getty process undergoes a change to reflect the ownership of the user you tried to log in as. Try changing the the getty in inittab if you have not already done that to other options like agetty or mgetty. For these you will need the appropriate rpms installed. 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 Change the above line to something like and then try logging into the first tty if you change the tty1 line. Note you will need to reboot for this to take effect or you have to use something like telinit with the "q" option and then kill the already running *getty process for the appropriate tty. 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty tty1 Above are all just ideas I dont know what your problem is sorry. :-( -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
