From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Bash will not start in Terminals Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:37:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4236C8E5.3090703@gelm.net> References: <200503150746.j2F7kBBm000590@skyinet.net> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200503150746.j2F7kBBm000590@skyinet.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Peter Cc: Ray Olszewski , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs