Message: 11 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:25:27 -0600 From: Michal Jaegermann michal@harddata.com Subject: Re: only one bash prompt? To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases fedora-test-list@redhat.com Cc: "charles f. zeitler" cfzeitler@yahoo.com Message-ID: 20040725172527.A19867@mail.harddata.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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@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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