Fwd: only one bash prompt?

charles f. zeitler cfzeitler at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 31 19:12:37 UTC 2004


Message: 11
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:25:27 -0600
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>
Subject: Re: only one bash prompt?
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
	<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Cc: "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler at yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040725172527.A19867 at mail.harddata.com>
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On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:50:35PM -0700, charles f.
zeitler wrote:
> when i try to open
> a second terminal,
> or a second term tab,
> the bash prompt
> never appears.

A bit too long for a haiku, but ... Maybe it can be
improved. :-)

Anything similar to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127048
How about ownership and permissions on /dev/pts ?

  Michal


/dev  ---  root,755
/dev/* --  current user,640

Message: 9
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:16:40 -0500
From: Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>

A litte more info is needed here for anyone to be
helpful.
Which OS?

fedora core 3, test1

Is it up to date?

i have had problems with updates

Are you running bash?

yup.

Which version of bash?

2.05b-42

This happens in X or in console mode or both?

x

If in X which desktop and terminal

gnome 

gnome term

output of `echo $TERM'

xterm

          `echo $SHELL

/bin/bash

           env 

Contents of .bashrc and .bash_profile
                                                      
                         
                                                      
                         
# .bashrc
 
# User specific aliases and functions
 
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi



                                                      
                         
                                                      
                         
# .bash_profile
 
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi
 
# User specific environment and startup programs
 
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
 
export PATH
unset USERNAME

Fill that stuff in and someone can help you.  

thanks for the pointers, guys,
but this seems to be load related.

cfzeitler

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