Terminal bug: missing prompt

Jean-Marie Pacquet jm at pacquet.net
Sat Feb 23 15:21:55 CET 2008


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



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