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#1 2009-09-03 03:01:05

ssl6
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From: Ottawa, ON, CA
Registered: 2007-08-30
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[solved] terminal broken?

im having some problems with terminals right now. basically, can't use them

i'll start by posting the link to me thread on the kdemod forum
http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic … 8257#p8257

essentially, this is what konsole does for me

konsole.jpg

i don't know why, but it does. at first i thought it was caused by the 4.3.1 update, since it was put out a little early by those guys. but then i downgraded, and its still broken. i tried to install xterm, and it doesn't even launch. i also tried LXterminal, which does the same thing as konsole.

so basically, i have no working terminals. unless i CTRL+ALT+F#. and honestly, linux is kind of useless without a terminal.......am i right?

i need help, please. i can't even copy and paste terminal output to help figure this out

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#2 2009-09-03 04:02:13

neddie_seagoon
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

Have you recently made any changes to .bashrc, .bash_profile, /etc/profile, etc? Maybe something in there is hanging up bash when you use xterm or any other terminal. You could try to rename those (or comment out things there that refer to X terminals) and see if your terminals start again, or change your shell with 'usermod -s <newshell> userid' to see.

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#3 2009-09-03 04:07:58

ssl6
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

i don't even know what those files are to touch them........

this problem happens with any user, just to be clear on that


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#4 2009-09-03 05:04:08

Tyriel
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

Did you perhaps delete dot files by accident inside of your home folder?  Try making a new user and login using it and see if the problem is still there.  Whether it works or not it will narrow down the issue.


The software required Windows XP or better, so I installed archlinux.

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#5 2009-09-03 05:08:58

ssl6
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

same thing in a new user account.......


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#6 2009-09-03 05:17:02

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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

How does your ~/.bashrc look like?


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#7 2009-09-03 05:25:37

ssl6
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From: Ottawa, ON, CA
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

bashrc

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

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#8 2009-09-03 12:43:02

Trent
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

Try starting the shell as a login shell (like the virtual consoles do).  In KDE, press Alt-F2 for the run dialog, and type "konsole -e bash -l".  The -e option should tell konsole to start "bash -l" instead of its default, which is probably just plain "bash".  I could be wrong about the specific option, but that's how urxvt and xterm both handle it (I don't use konsole).

While you're there, try executing other things in the terminal.  Like "konsole -e man man", which should open up a man page and exit when you hit Q.  If it doesn't, there's something wrong with your terminal.

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#9 2009-09-03 12:59:04

ssl6
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From: Ottawa, ON, CA
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

the first one "konsole -e bash -l" did the same thing. the second one, "konsole -e man man", crashed

i'm starting to think a reinstall is the only way out.....i was planning on upgrading to a 750gb drive from my 400gb, though it would be much easy to clone it and reconfigure grub and fstab, than to reconfigure everything......

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#10 2009-09-03 13:30:33

ssl6
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From: Ottawa, ON, CA
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Re: [solved] terminal broken?

i found a fix, it came from this link
http://www.nabble.com/kpackagekit-probl … 98490.html

i'll quote what helped me Quote:

sudo mount devpts /dev/pts -t devpts and now the mount | grep pts show
a mount point that is (rw).

By chance this also has allowed my konsole to start functioning. I
posted another thread earlier about konsole not working, I could not
type anything in it.

anyway, what happened. was a setup a new drive the other night, and modified fstab, and while i was there, i commented out 2 lines, one was a devpts or something. because on boot, i kept getting 2 messages about mount points not found, so i thought those lines were doing nothing but causing those messages........i uncommented them, and its working. i've been working on this for 2 days now. at least it was fixable. dumb mistake i guess.....newb mistake at least i'm sure

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