Fwd: only one bash prompt?
Message: 11
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:25:27 -0600
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com>
Subject: Re: only one bash prompt?
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler(a)yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040725172527.A19867(a)mail.harddata.com>
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On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:50:35PM -0700, charles f.
zeitler wrote:
when i try to open
a second terminal,
or a second term tab,
the bash prompt
never appears.
A bit too long for a haiku, but ... Maybe it can be
improved. :-)
Anything similar to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127048
How about ownership and permissions on /dev/pts ?
Michal
/dev --- root,755
/dev/* -- current user,640
Message: 9
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:16:40 -0500
From: Harry Putnam <reader(a)newsguy.com>
A litte more info is needed here for anyone to be
helpful.
Which OS?
fedora core 3, test1
Is it up to date?
i have had problems with updates
Are you running bash?
yup.
Which version of bash?
2.05b-42
This happens in X or in console mode or both?
x
If in X which desktop and terminal
gnome
gnome term
output of `echo $TERM'
xterm
`echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
env
Contents of .bashrc and .bash_profile
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
unset USERNAME
Fill that stuff in and someone can help you.
thanks for the pointers, guys,
but this seems to be load related.
cfzeitler
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