On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 10:38 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > I thought Lucid was working fine until this morning. I needed to change > permissions on a partition and launched Konsole to do it through bash. > Unfortunately, after about 30 secs or so of waiting, all I got was an empty > Konsole Window with a message in big red letters to say that it was unable to > find /bin/bash. (I can't remember the exact words and it simply doesn't > launch any more.) > > I then tried to launch 'Console' which also appears in the KDE Launch Menu. > Same result. I was then able to go into a Virtual Console (ALT/CTRL F*) and > make my changes without any problems. > > >From this, I suspect that the problem isn't anything to do with bash, but > >with > whatever it is that makes the link between Konsole and bash. The trouble is > that I'm not sure how to find the error messages. I've tried typing > 'konsole' > in the Virtual Console and get a bunch of errors that are wider than the > display. I don't know if these errors are related to the problem I'm having > in KDE or simply because I can't do that in the VC. (When I type 'kate', I > get a different message telling me that it cannot connect to the X server.) > > Any ideas? > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > > No specific ideas Terry, but my Gnome desktop has died a couple of times when I've left the computer on for many hours. I'm trying it now without power-down and a blank screen for the saver. I've also had one unstart from boot-up, could be a hardware problem, happened with Vista(and required 45 minutes of 'repair'), but never with 9.10. Simono
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