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Suami777

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[SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

Hello i'm trying to change my bash to zsh, but i cant change it as default shell on other user than root.

chsh -s $(which zsh)
Changing shell for user.
Password:
chsh: Shell not changed.

i dont know what to do, on gentoo it works fine

Last edited by Suami777 (2013-07-08 20:05:37)

oliver

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

what does 'chsh -l' (that is an ell) give?

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

chsh -l

/bin/sh
/bin/bash

/usr/bin/zsh

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35724 ?

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

ok so if i good understand

 chsh -s $(/usr/bin/zsh)

its logging me on zsh shell but after run new terminal its again bash

Last edited by Suami777 (2013-07-08 16:51:41)

HalosGhost

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

ok so if i good understand

 chsh -s $(/usr/bin/zsh)

its logging me on zsh shell but after run new terminal its again bash

No need for the "$()".

$ chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh

The above should do just fine.

All the best,

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Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

damn

chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh
Changing shell for user.
Password:
chsh: Shell not changed.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

I've just checked and it should have worked with 'chsh -s $(which zsh)' - it did work for me.
Log out and log back in. What's the output of

echo $SHELL

?

Maybe you've already succesfully changed shells

$ chsh -s $(which zsh)
Changing shell for karol.
Password: 
Shell changed.
$ chsh -s $(which zsh)
Changing shell for karol.
Password: 
chsh: Shell not changed.

I did type the correct password, but I already changed my shell to zsh so I got this rather unhelpful error message.

Last edited by karol (2013-07-08 17:50:20)

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

well actualy i didnt

echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

chsh -s $(which zsh)
Zmiana powłoki dla user.
Hasło: 
chsh: Powłoka nie została zmieniona. 

sorry for polish laguange but i see karol is polish user

Last edited by Suami777 (2013-07-08 17:59:22)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

I understand English, so please post in English :-)

Did you log out before 'echo $SHELL'?

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
$ chsh -s $(which zsh)
Changing shell for karol.
Password: 
Shell changed.
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Are you sure you're not mistyping your password?

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

yes i'm 100% sure

P.S. I knwo youre know english but i didnt want to change laguange for one code post

Last edited by Suami777 (2013-07-08 18:08:51)

HalosGhost

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

yes i'm 100% sure

P.S. I knwo youre know english but i didnt want to change laguange for one code post

See Pasting Pictures and Code. You don't need to change  your language to easily make the output of a command appear in English

All the best,

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

Not sure what do you mean by changing language, it's really easy to have your output in English: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

Please prepend LC_ALL=C to posted commands so that the output will be in English.

Edit: HalosGhost's posts wasn't here when I checked before posting, but I had to wait an eternity to have my post submitted :-(

You still haven't answered whether you did log out before issuing 'echo $SHELL'.

Last edited by karol (2013-07-08 18:15:45)

HalosGhost

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

Edit: HalosGhost's posts wasn't here when I checked before posting, but I had to wait an eternity to have my post submitted :-(

Karol, that feeling right there; that's what we all feel like most of the time with your posts

All the best,

-HG

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Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

ok its great option i will use it next time

anyway any idea what to do with zsh ?

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

You still haven't answered whether you did log out before issuing 'echo $SHELL'.

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

You still haven't answered whether you did log out before issuing 'echo $SHELL'.

Silence is an answer...

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Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

changed

go in terminal > type chsh -s $(which zsh) + password > close window (no exit) > run new terminal = got bash

go in terminal > type chsh -s $(which zsh) + password > exit > exit > run new terminal = got bash

Last edited by Suami777 (2013-07-08 18:37:01)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

Were you running is from X or from tty? You need to log out of that session or at least log in in another session (e.g. tty2)

You still haven't answered whether you did log out before issuing 'echo $SHELL'.

Silence is an answer...

Father: Speech is silver, silence is ...?
6yo kid: Of the lambs!

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

Were you running is from X or from tty? You need to log out of that session or at least log in in another session (e.g. tty2)

You still haven't answered whether you did log out before issuing 'echo $SHELL'.

Silence is an answer...

Father: Speech is silver, silence is ...?
6yo kid: Of the lambs!

quote from harry potter ? ?

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

quote from harry potter ? ?

No idea. I have neither read nor watched it so I must have gotten it from somewhere else.

You can just reboot the computer if you're unsure about that logging out stuff.

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

i have no i idea what is not working i was making reboot and nothing help, dontk now why its not working the worst think is i'm again thinking about going back to gentoo

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

the only one think i can say "lol"

sudo chsh -s $(which zsh)

wordked ;w, dont ask me how i dont know but it worked

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

Great news :-)
That was the last thing I wanted to try out - I noticed 'usermod -s' needed sudo to work properly :-)

Suami777

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant change shell for user (zsh)

but still in man i dont see information about needed sudo to execute -s

strange

Thank you very much for help