A couple of things to check:
In your passwords file, what shell does it say "root" should start
with?
Do you still have a ~/.bash_profile ?
hope this helps, although I doubt it,
Bryan
>
> sorry for the length of this message, but I am not sure what may be
> relavent so I am includeing alot of info, hopefully some one can point
> me in the right direction.
> I have been running linux for several months now (Red Hat 5.1) and have
> upgraded my kernal to 2.2. I use KDE as my desktop environment and
> always run as root (i know, i know)
>
> A few days ago, I got a bizzar error message while running netscape that
> it couldnt find a file and that my bookmarks might not be available
> (there was more, but unfortunatly I didnt write it down). As my netscape
> started locking up on me, I shut it down and decided to reboot my
> machine. After doing so I logged back in ok and when I started up my
> xserver I recieved a message that KDE could find a directory (or 2)
> under /root and that it was recreating them. Everything seemed ok, but I
> noticed when I got into KDE that all of my desktop
> icons/backgrounds/desktop configuration was gone, and things were set
> back to the default configuration. I opened up a terminal window and
> noticed that my shell prompt was different (it said just "#bash" rather
> than "user@box dir") I launched netscape, and found although I still had
> all my bookmarks and email messages, I had lost my address book. Also
> now when ever I browse the web, I get a message that my book marks have
> been changed and are being reloaded every 3 or 4 pages. Also I have
> noticed that commands are acting different at the terminal level. It
> used to be a default that rm would prompt with an are you sure? message,
> and I would have to use -f to override, now it just removes the file.
> Another odd thing is that if I do a source /etc/profile, my prompt
> returns to the old style (though the rm isnt fixed).
>
> I am wondering if anyone has run into a problem like this before and can
> point me in the right direction for setting thinsgs back up correctly.
> At the time I was not changeing anything in the system and my system
> seems set up ok (as far as etc/profile and root directories), but maybe
> there are other things I need to check?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Robert Treat
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
