** Description changed: I've experienced very odd behaviour with the login shell: Initially I had bash installed and no tcsh. Randomly, gnome-terminal locked up. New terminals wouldn't start (xterm or gnome-terminal). I couldn't log in in text-mode because (IIRC) of some error message about tcsh not being present (note: my shell in /etc/passwd is /bin/bash, which is present). I managed to install tcsh, at which point all my login shells were tcsh, despite my setting in /etc/passwd. typing "bash" launched bash fine. I then uninstalled tcsh. Now I get a bash login shell, and everything seems OK. This happened randomly while I was using X, without changing any settings or updating packages. The only possible clue is that I have a network login, so my /etc/password looks like: +drodgman::::::/bin/bash but: sudo chsh -s /bin/bash drodgman chsh: drodgman not found in /etc/passwd maybe some problem with parsing network logins? + + ---------- + + Happened again today. I rebooted, and noticed that I was unable to bind to NIS. I was able to log in, though, + and I don't see any other problems (network filesystems mounted OK), so it's not clear why this problem has + affected my shell.
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