Terminal bug: missing prompt

[Alexander Toresson]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Robby Workman <xfce at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>
>  Of course it does - that's standard format for /etc/passwd.
>
>  When you add/edit a user account with kuser (the kde tool for user
>  management), make sure you don't leave the shell selection box
>  empty.
>
>  -RW
>

man 5 passwd disagrees, saying that the last field is the 'optional
user command interpreter' field, and if none is supplied, it should
default to /bin/sh.

Regards, Alexander Toresson