[Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Terry Coles
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 un

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:38:34 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > 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 first thing I would try is checking what shell is being fired up by the other terminal

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Simon O'Riordan
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 > Kons

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 16 May 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > The first thing I would try is checking what shell is being fired up by > the other terminal emulator. Just run 'ps' in a session that is not doing > anything and you will usually see two entries. > > An example: > $ ps >PID TTY TIME CMD

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Sun, 16 May 2010 11:09:26 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > I'm not sure I understand this; are you suggesting that bash might be > locked? I thought you could run as many instances of bash as you wanted? Correct - I was implying that you may not have been using bash on the virtual console. Y

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > 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

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Terry Coles
Would you believe that Konsole is now working normally, but I didn't find out until I got to the end of the process. I'm going to send this anyway, because I have some related queries along the way and the answers would be useful for future reference. On Sunday 16 May 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrot

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > could try running `konsole' in that to see if any messages give a > > clue. > > Well I got Konsole up and running with some errors being logged. I > can't work out how to capture the messages to put them here. There is > quite a bit. If you're running a command, e.g. ls(1), then

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu Lucid - No Konsole (or console), but bash works

2010-05-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 16 May 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Well I got Konsole up and running with some errors being logged. I > > can't work out how to capture the messages to put them here. There is > > quite a bit. . . . . > bash provides a short-cut, > > ls foo nonexist &>foo I knew there was a wa