maybe this is weird, maybe not. using RHLX 7.1 (Kernel v2.4.9-31) on an PIII(450) Gateway Solo 9300. believe it or not, everything works great, including having both the touch pad, PS2 keyboard and USB mouse, which took LOTS of messing around. XFree86 needs more *laptop* display options, but I guess there's always something to bitch about, right? Anyway, being the tinker munkee that I am, I decided I wanted a different bash prompt. Hey, I'm picky.
changed .bashrc by adding the following: export PS1="[\s \u@\h \w]\$" after this, using xstart (which starts GNOME) hangs as soon as the textured startup screen shows. Did not get the "Welcome to GNOME" graphics or anything. Still had mouse movement, but no response from ctr-alt-del. I was able to switch to another VC (ctrl-alt-f2), and login as root. Then I blasted the hung processes using a ps -ef and using kill to stop all PID's (the X11 type commands run by the hung user). Went back to the hung VC and the GNOME screen was gone, but there was nothing especially interesting in the output from the Xserver. It got as far as starting up the core pointer, then nothing else, just a debug saying it had been sent a terminate signal. Anyway, I removed the export PS1 line from the .bashrc file, did a quick out/in, tried "startx" again, and everything is fine. weird that the Xserver / GNOME would have issues with and export from .bashrc, and though I have some vague notions I really would LOVE to know why this happened. As an aside, I changed the bash prompt declaration globally in the /etc/profile, and it doesn't seem to bother anything. I also added a bunch of alias delclarations to the .bashrc which didn't upset xstart. only the "export PS1" line mades it fail to start, or stopped GNOME, or whatever it is that happened. anyone care to speculate / prove what is is causing this? I'm off to try and break something else. The RPM install for Postgres sucks, so I'm going to do it manually. cheers (a) _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
