Not really expert reply here. Did you wait for several minutes before
determining that your shell failed to start at all?
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote:
> Hi Chmouel
>
> I'v posted a message to cooker and expert without any answer.Not so expert
> att all ??
> Here it is:
>
> Hi cooker guys,
> I'm looking for login just after the boot, when the 'Welcome to mandrake'
> comes up. (console stage)on init 3.
> When giving-up the user name and then the password, nothing happen.
> and no PROMPT.
> When then typing anyting, the console reflects exactly a second time what I
> had typing.
> The only way to reboot is a crt-alt-del.
>
> The strange thing is that I can login in FAILSAFE MODE !(single)
> Going to /sbin/telinit S. (workstation)
> As root only of course.
> Checked everything I think, all about security, all bashrc's , rc's,
> local's, tty, rc.sysinit,inittab with 'echo's' to check if it was accessed
> and running.
> All goes well and the last step the system is taken is the root .bashrc.(is
> it ?)
> >From now I must have my bash prompt, did it ? There is nothing wrong with my
> bashrc.
> But NOTHING.
> A second strange thigs is that after logging in as init 3, and looking the
> /var/log/messages; it say's 'session opened for root' and 'logged in as
> root' ! Logged in on tty1.
>
> I resume:
> Logging in in failsafe mode : bash prompt is there.
> Logging in as init 3 : NO bash prompt and can't go further.
>
> Have XFee86-4.0.2, kde-2.1 and kernel 4.2 installed.
>
> What can I do ?
>
> Txs
> Eric MC
>
>
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