On Sunday 19 May 2002 21:15, Robin Atwood wrote: > I just issued a "cat /proc/devices" at a KDE konsole session after which > the konsole disappeared. Every time I start a new konsole it appears and > then closes immediately. Neither xterm or rxvt open either. Worse, > switching to a VT I login and get immediately logged off! For any userid! > So I am afraid to logoff or reboot in case I cannot login again. There are > no messages in the syslog except the normal session start/close messages. > So any idea what has got hosed? It's not a problem with ~/.bash_history > because it happens for all users. FWIW, this is a RH7.2 system with a > 2.4.18 kernel. The password file is okay because there are no error > messages. I think it happens when bash tries to start.
Okay, panic over. :-) I edited the /etc/passwd file to change my shell to ksh and then I could get to a command line. Typing bash produced "memory error" so I reinstalled the bash rpm and all was well again. But how the bash binary was suddenly corrupted by a cat command remains a complete mystery. Cheers... -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "This tag line left intentionally blank" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
