Hey Tom,
I've been wondering the same thing ever since I installed Gentoo. This must have to do
with how
the Gentoo install doc walks you through initial install. I use KDM and login into KDE
as my
desktop.
>From inside of KDE when I open a console terminal the console terminal always has the
>generic line
of:
bash-2.05b$
No matter where I'm at in the directory Tree.
If I "su" its the same thing but ofcourse the "$" is replaced with the "#" sign.
This didn't really bother me at first until I noticed that I was always having to
"pwd" to figure
out which directory I was in.. and having to ". /etc/profile" to get somethings to
work properly.
Kindof annoying.
Now if I ". /etc/profile",
I get a nice colorful new bash prompt "deadmeat jbanks #" of which I was used to
see'ing all the
time before going to Gentoo distro. So now I have "machine name" + "current directory"
for the
shell command prompt and everything is peachee.
What I don't understand is "from reading the <man bash>", and how I'm setup(login
wise) from boot
to getting to KDE desktop what bash is doing.
Is this (interactive, non-interactive, what???)Not knowing,
So, I did this:
I added this to ~.bashrc
. /etc/profile
if [ -r ~/.bash_profile ]; then
. ~/.bash_profile
fi
This didn't work and anytime I open another console window it would be blank and
non-responsive.
So I did this to trouble shoot and added this to see what was happening:
echo 1
. /etc/profile
echo 2
if [ -r ~/.bash_profile ]; then
. ~/.bash_profile
fi
echo 3
And got:
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
So it would seem that ~/.bash_profile is trying to source ~/.bashrc for some reason,
making it
create an infinite loop.
Now remeber I haven't done anything special configuration wise except for following
the ~x86
Gentoo Install doc.
I just don't have enough experience to know what to do or understand why this is
happening.
Tom I hope this helps get someone on this forum to give us some explanation as to why
this is
happening and what todo.
I would assume that this happens to anyone that follows the install doc.. No? And just
knows what
todo to remedy the problem. NO?
JBanks
--- Tom Hosiawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are you sure that .bash_profile is being sourced somewhere, I know that
> > bash defaults to checking .bashrc. Make sure that bash is even checking
> > that file.
>
> Ok, I've determined that it does read the .bash_profile, but what its
> not doing is setting the new PATH
>
> If I login on a virtual console, that PATH is changed appropriately, but
> if I open up a terminal, PATH is changed to my new setting. Is there
> about gentoo that causes the PATH variable not to be overwritten?
>
> Tom
>
>
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