broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

liticovjesac · 2011-02-28 16:35:48

Hi everyone
I have 2 problems since last update. I am running gnome on eeepc 1000h.
I am starting gnome session with startx and i noticed that my login line in terminal is some kind of broken. I can login ,gnome works but my conky at the bottom of the screen (2 linees text ) is kind of broken. Same things happened when I open terminator. I am attaching picture because I dont know how better to explaine my problem.

Here is a list of last updated packages before I noticed this problem:

[2011-02-27 18:39] warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew
[2011-02-27 18:39] upgraded initscripts (2010.07-2 -> 2011.02.1-1)
[2011-02-27 18:39] upgraded python2 (2.7.1-6 -> 2.7.1-7)
[2011-02-27 18:40] upgraded libreoffice (3.3.0.4-2 -> 3.3.1-1)
[2011-02-27 18:40] upgraded librsvg (2.32.1-1 -> 2.32.1-2)
[2011-02-27 18:40] upgraded v4l-utils (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.3-1)
[2011-02-28 18:12] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2011-02-28 18:12] synchronizing package lists
[2011-02-28 18:12] starting full system upgrade
[2011-02-28 18:13] upgraded clutter (1.6.2-1 -> 1.6.6-1)
[2011-02-28 18:13] upgraded file (5.05-1 -> 5.05-2)
[2011-02-28 18:13] installed libebml (1.2.0-1)
[2011-02-28 18:13] installed libmatroska (1.1.0-1)
[2011-02-28 18:13] upgraded vlc (1.1.7-3 -> 1.1.7-4)

Second problem that I noticed today is that I cant login in the arch forum using chromium. I get message successfully loged in but when forum page is load it says not loged in. Obviously FF doesnt have this problem.
Any help?

Last edited by liticovjesac (2011-02-28 17:19:43)

oliver · 2011-02-28 19:33:29

for the terminal problem, can you do this:

$ grep PS1 ~/.bashrc

liticovjesac · 2011-03-01 06:33:19

here it is

[liticovjesac@vampir
 ~]$ grep PS1 .bashrc 
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
[liticovjesac@vampir
 ~]$

Just one notice. This "broken line" shows first after boot process when computer enter tty1 (level 3 , tty1 I guess) and when it ask for a login.

oliver · 2011-03-01 13:49:49

if you see the broken line before you even log in it's most likely something in /etc/issue. Can you post the contents? If so, you can either modify it or remove the file completely (back it up if you're not sure)

the PS1 line in .bashrc means "if the PS1 string is empty, set it to "user@host <dir>$" - Since your PS1 is not getting modified, it must already be set elsewhere.

The part confusing me is that I thought /etc/issue had no relation to PS1 but I may be wrong. Hopefully someone else can chime in

liticovjesac · 2011-03-01 15:52:37

For a content of /etc/issue I will need real Roseta stone for translation

^[[H^[[2J
Arch Linux \r  (\n) (\l)

I will try with removing it ...

Removing /etc/issue didn't help.

Chromium login problem persist even after todays update to chromium 9.0.597.107-1

Last edited by liticovjesac (2011-03-01 16:08:58)

oliver · 2011-03-01 18:54:52

what happens if you manually set your PS1

$ export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

liticovjesac · 2011-03-01 20:27:08

Changing SP1 didnt fix my problem. It is somewhere before user is logged in as you mentioned. I guess in some tty settings. Searching for this lead me to :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Linux_Containers
and
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103319
but there is nothing there about broken line prblem. I read that there is some tool for changin tty settings, called stty but all this goes behind my skills.
Here is my output od stty -a. I guess that this shows current tty settings.

[liticovjesac@vampir
 ~]$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 28; columns 100; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?;
start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany imaxbel
iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke

edit: thinking that problem is in bash I've downgraded but no results.

Last edited by liticovjesac (2011-03-01 20:30:07)

oliver · 2011-03-01 21:01:40

sorry - if it's not /etc/issue or the PS1 setting I'm at a loss. Hopefully this bump with let someone else see it

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#1 2011-02-28 16:35:48

broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

#2 2011-02-28 19:33:29

Re: broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

#3 2011-03-01 06:33:19

Re: broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

#4 2011-03-01 13:49:49

Re: broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

#5 2011-03-01 15:52:37

Re: broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

#6 2011-03-01 18:54:52

Re: broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

#7 2011-03-01 20:27:08

Re: broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

#8 2011-03-01 21:01:40

Re: broken text line in terminal and conky + failed login in chromium

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