mess-mate, Nov 5, 18:23 +0100:

Uli Fahrenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Allard Welter, Nov 1, 17:02 +0100:
|
| >This looks like a bash (non-)thingy Have you checked the startup scripts for 
the occurrence
| >of "[: ==" ? I can't recal a colon being part of any conditional - perhaps a 
typo?
|
| Without additional information it is unlikely anybody can help you with this. 
It's like the
| needle-in-a-haystack problem.
|
| But I believe Allard is wrong above; IIRC this error is typically caused by a 
line like
|
|       [ $X == blah ] && do_something
|
| which in case $X is empty becomes
|
|       [  == blah ] ...
|
| and then bash complains that the [ is followed by an == operator.
|
| This kind of problem can be prevented by instead of the above test saying
|
|       [ X$X == Xblah ] ...
|
| but again, without additional info this is difficult to debug.
|
Thanks for the help at now guys, but the only startup-script i've
found containing a ':' is udev ( with :space: ).

Re-read my above explanation, and you'll find that searching for files containing ':' is *not* the way to go.

uli


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