Re: Bash will not start in Terminals

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Peter said:
> 
>>Slackware10 kernel 2.4.26
>>
>>>For me unknown reason suddenly bash will not
>>
>>start in terminals. 
> 
> 
> The reason was that I had made a new slackware installation in which then in 
> the /etc/passwd under my user name at the end of the line there was no 
> :/bin/bash as it used to be.
> 
> I found it out when I added an arbitrary user in which then again bash was not 
> started in the terminals. Again on his passwd line there was no :/bin/bash.
> 
> So it had nothing to do with me getting too old for Linux. It's a new 
> "gimmick" in slackware which one has to find out first.
> 
> Regards

Hi, Peter:

  I use Slackware 10.0 on my laptop and I have added 4 users.
Each has '/bin/bash' at the end of the entries of /etc/passwd.

  I see the same in /etc/passwd on my Slackware 10.1 on another box.

I seem to have no such gimmick ???

Regards, Chuck



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