Terminal bug: missing prompt

[Jean-Marie Pacquet]

Hi all,

I'm new to this list as I'm moving my Slackware based desktop PCs from 
WindowMaker to XFCE which seems to be one way to go... Upgrading them to 
Slack 12.0, I was not able to use Terminal since there is no system 
prompt: you can't enter anything. My favorite terminal "aterm" is not 
affected by this bug and the standard "xterm" is not either. After some 
googling, I found this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/xfce-terminal-not-working-586728/

It seems that Terminal requires your own prefered shell to be listed in 
the /etc/passwd. Adding "/bin/bash" at the end of my entry in 
/etc/passwd effectively fixed the problem.


HTH
-- 
jmp