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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