My terminal window has stopped providing me with a user prompt,
and although I can type into it, doesn't respond to any commands.
earlier, when I quit it, it said that some processes were still
active, and complained that quitting it would kill several instances
(about 20) of the same command. I think it was tcsh, but I'm not sure.
It's not doing it now.
Also, Process Viewer doesn't display any processes at all.
Here's what I did: I downloaded and installed fink. I then did
the following (as instructed in the Users Manual, but it might have
been for the Source distribution not binary - it's a bit
unclear)
I went into Terminal and typed :
cd
pico
.cshrc
(ctrl-O retn ctrl-x). Then quit and reran terminal.
It displayed an error message about insufficient privileges, I
think to do with the sw directory (can't remember). I've recently had
problems with OSX claiming that one or two directories to belong to
the system or root when they're my work(!), so I thought this might be
the same thing, and dropped the entire sw directory on BatChmod, to
change the privileges of the folder and all it's contents. I changed
it to stay as belonging to system, but to allow anyone to read and
write. Can't remember if anything noteworthy happened next, but now
the situation is as described above. Oh, and BatChmod doesn't
work anymore - it quits as soon as you start it.
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Dan O'Brien
The Dancing Ox Company
22 Castle Circus House, 136 Union Street, Torquay TQ2 5QG
01803 409108*www.oxdance.co.uk
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The Dancing Ox Company
22 Castle Circus House, 136 Union Street, Torquay TQ2 5QG
01803 409108*www.oxdance.co.uk
creativity*reliability
