On 4/29/02 11:02, "Dan O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Do you get any output at all when you open a Terminal? > 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) No, you should have to modify .cshrc for either distro. > I went into Terminal and typed : > cd > pico .cshrc > (ctrl-O retn ctrl-x). Then quit and reran terminal. Did you create .cshrc in your user account's home directory as an administrative user (not root)? And you did put in the 'source init.csh' line, right (I'm being pedantic here so that we can expedite finding your problem). Also, does opening a Term > 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. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
