Re: RedHat 9 - another problem now - help appreciated ;)

From: Bob Wright (couchfulodogs_at_liamtoh.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:49:22 GMT

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:49:25 +1000, NightStalker wrote:

> In article <pan.2003.10.28.03.38.42.174883@rubbish.com>,
> girya@rubbish.com says...
>
> Thanks Gireesh and Paul - advice much appreciated.
>
> I've tried to intall OOo 1.1 and Moz 1.5, but ended up in a totally
> screwed-up mess.
>
> I've managed to get back to where I almost was <G> by using Synaptic and
> the RH9 Add/Remove app. I'm now back on OO 1.02 and Moz 1.2.1
>
> The only legacy of these adventures is that now my Terminal window
> (Konsole in KDE) no longer comes up with the prompt being my username
> and directory (e.g. root@Raptor root) - instead it just comes up with
> bash-2.05b#
>
> There is absolutely no indication as to which directory I'm in, but I
> can surmise where I am by doing a directory listing.
>
> How did that terminal prompt setting become corrupted, and how can I
> change it back to normal? Any clues would be much appreciated.
>
> Incidentally, when I log in as a user as opposed to root, the terminal
> prompt is normal.
>
> Once again, thanks for all your help.

Try these repositories for apt. (/etc/apt/sources.list) One of them has 1.5, can't remember which.

# Planet CCRMA for RedHat 9
# Main site, CCRMA, California, USA
rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/ redhat/9/en/i386 os updates
rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/ redhat/all/en/i386 planetccrma
rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/ redhat/9/en/i386 planetcore
rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/ redhat/9/en/i386 planetccrma

Bob

Relevant Pages

  • Signing an rpm package at build-time automatically
    ... and it will prompt for something like this: ... Now on my system I need to build rpm automatically (without human ... Is it possible to have my paraphrase being read in a file ... didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg ...
    (Fedora)
  • RE: up2date
    ... to import the RHN public key. ... I did it successfully (I checked with rpm -qa gpg*) but it ... continues to prompt me for the same import. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Signing an rpm package at build-time automatically
    ... > and it will prompt for something like this: ... Is it possible to have my paraphrase being read in a file ... > paraphrase each time one rpm is being built. ... the rpms without signing then, and signing all of them in one pass ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: rpm questions?
    ... >> I told him to download the new rpms and install them. ... >> When one gives any rpm command envolving these downloaded files, ... the downloaded packages must be in the current ... would also get back to the prompt without any output. ...
    (RedHat)