On 04/01/14 19:36, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:15:05PM -0500,rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: >> My BLFS 7.5 xterm displays a “sh-4.2#” prompt. My xterm prompt in BLFS >> 7.4 is “/ >” and “PS1=”\w > “ is in my BLFS 7.5 /etc/bashrc file. In >> addition to the wrong prompt, I can't “source” scripts, and receive >> “file not found.” LFS 7.5 seems to be working fine, with the correct >> prompt and without “file not found” or sourcing problems. >> >> I've apparently done something wrong with X. I've re-read the >> documentation but am flat-out not seeing my error. What should I check? > Since you are running as root (the '#' in the prompt), check root's > .bashrc (if it exists) and .bash_login. In particular, check > anything setting the path. Also, if bash is invoked as 'sh' the > behaviour is apparently different. See the "source filename" > explanation in 'man bash'. > > Alternatively, perhaps ~/ (i.e. /root) is not writable by root. Or > even not readable. I was going to suggest you checked that '/' and > '/tmp' were not full [ that would be 100% full for root, including > any reserved space ], but I guess that if X starts then it has > managed to write in /tmp. > > ĸen
$PATH and .bashrc are identical on my BLFS 7.4 and 7.5 partitions. I see no .bash_login, but .bash_profile is identical between my partitions. I can copy files between my BLFS 7.5 and other partitions. That includes / and I can copy files between / and other directories on my BLFS 7.5 partition. I should mention I can't even bring up an xterm window if I start X as a non-root user. The window flashes briefly and disappears. Also, while using a root user xterm, I can't "source SomeScript.sh" but can "./SomeScript.sh." I'm really at a loss as to how I messed this up. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
