On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> I don't know what I've done, but now I get this message using any xterm as
> a user - root's OK. I can only use the spacebar to page forward in a man
> page.
>
> [20:14 peter@penguin:~]$ man bash
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> - (press RETURN)
> BASH(1) BASH(1)
>
> On consoles 1..6, as root or user, I get...
> [20:14 peter@penguin:~]$ man bash
> <standard input>:1386:warning: can't break line
> BASH(1) BASH(1)
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
Yes, this rings a bell. Same message - terminal not fully functional.
Could not figure out what caused the xterm to get in that state but
it did appear to be connected to one user so the immediate cause of the
problem seemed to be in a startup script or configuration file. Found
a hidden file in my home directory which I knew nothing about, called
something like .ttyrc. Too long ago to remember exactly what it was
called or what it contained. Anyway, deleted that and the problem
vanished for subsequent xterms. Try looking for something like that.
Try ls -a for both root and user and look for hidden files which do not
appear in both. One of these will be the culprit. Then you have to
figure out what created it in the first place.
Good luck
--
Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
