Ben Measures wrote:
> James wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I got KDE running on Gentoo. Konqueer works, but, I have one small
>> problem.
>>
>> When I firt up a terminal window, I do
>> not get the shell prompt.
>>
>> I can use the web, and type stuff in, and the mouse works fine.
>> Somehow the
>> login session does not automatically
>> give me my shell promt to my home directory.
>>
>> I'm able to use the mouse and keyboard
>> to configure kde, just no shell prompt
>> in the windows/terminals....?
>>
>> Ideas on this one?
>>
>> James
>>
>
> Perhaps this might work:
> # usermod -s /bin/bash username
>
> Where 'username' is the name of the user (duh!). It just (re)specifies
> the shell to use for that user.
>

I tried

usermod -s /bin/bash james
<as root> and it made no differect

Besides /etc/passwd shows:
james:x:1000:100::/home/james:/bin/bash
so it knows the shell to use for default

I even tried:
james:x:1000:100:james:/home/james:/bin/bash
and exited and logged back in and
started X again, to no avail...

This is bizzare, maybe I'll check on
a kde group, as I've never seen this
before, and I've run kde on redhead,
OBSD and Debian, with no troubles....

James