Would you believe that Konsole is now working normally, but I didn't find out
until I got to the end of the process. I'm going to send this anyway, because
I have some related queries along the way and the answers would be useful for
future reference.
On Sunday 16 May 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I then tried to launch 'Console' which also appears in the KDE Launch
> > Menu. Same result. I was then able to go into a Virtual Console
> > (ALT/CTRL F*) and make my changes without any problems.
>
> At that VT, try
>
> DISPLAY=:0 xterm -ls
>
> and then switch back and see if an xterm has appeared. If it has, you
It did.
> could try running `konsole' in that to see if any messages give a clue.
Well I got Konsole up and running with some errors being logged. I can't work
out how to capture the messages to put them here. There is quite a bit.
> you could also see if
>
> strace -f -e trace=execve konsole
>
> sheds any light on whether it runs /bin/bash, and if it fails, what the
> return value is.
I get page-fulls of errors with this. Again, can I capture the messages into
file or something?
> In that xterm,
>
> echo $$
>
> will tell you the process ID of the shell that's running. If you do
Which it did.
> /bin/bash
>
> in it then it should start a new shell as a child. To confirm,
>
> echo $$ $PPID
>
> should print a new PID and the parent PID, which will be the previous
> PID printed. Enter `exit' to quit that subshell. If there's no errors
> with any of this then it suggests /bin/bash isn't the problem.
Which it did.
> See if there's anything at the end of ~/.xsession-errors.
Well there was, but now I discover that it's all working again. I've rebooted
since the problem this morning. As the Yanks would say 'Go figure'!
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Terry Coles
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