[NBLUG/talk] Terminal window not working revisited

[Todd Cary]

Bill -

Think I am getting close, but I need your Linux expertise.

I went into the KDE and typed gnome-terminal.  Terminal came up but *no* 
prompt.  Then I thought I was "losing it"...knew I saw the prompt 
yesterday.  Then a light went on: I was logged in as todd; not root..

So, I get the prompt as root; not as todd.  When I do get the prompt, 
$SHELL is /bin/bash .

What piece to the puzzle am I missing?

Todd

Bill Kendrick wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 06:30:30AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>In Gnome, the keyboard is active for all other programs; when the 
>>terminal window comes up, the prompt is *not* present.
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>Hrm... the _prompt_ isn't active?  That sounds like Gnome-Term can't find
>your chosen shell.  (But Konsole can... interesting)
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>No idea WHY this is happening, but it's starting to make more sense.
>(It's really not that the keyboard isn't working for gnome-term, it's just
>that there's nothing (no shell, apparently) running UNDER it to echo anything
>you type back)
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>WHen you run Konsole, type:
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>  echo $SHELL
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>Then, do the same from a (working) gnome-terminal
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>Any difference?
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>Good luck!
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>-bill!
>(off to the Geek Swap in Davis!)
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