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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] login to gnome fails
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:40:12
Message-Id: 5173FA40.7030908@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] login to gnome fails by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 Am 21.04.2013 15:10, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
2 > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> greetings ...
5 >>
6 >> for some days now I fiddle around with an issue on my ~amd64 thinkpad.
7 >
8 > [snip]
9 >
10 > I had a really weird problem that, perhaps, it has something to do
11 > with yours. After reading this:
12 >
13 > http://notes.torrez.org/2013/04/put-a-burger-in-your-shell.html
14 >
15 > I thought "hey, that's a cool idea", so I put a unicode character in
16 > my PS1 environment variable. Afterwards, I was unnable to log into
17 > GNOME; it took me several hours to link the PS1 variable to the
18 > problem, since I did the change inside of GNOME, and I didn't logout
19 > until I upgraded.
20 >
21 > I removed the PS1 override, and everything just worked again.
22 >
23 > So, just to discard this particular case, you should check your
24 > environment variables.
25
26 hmm, thanks for the suggestion.
27
28 $ echo $PS1
29 \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\]
30
31 -> some colored but not too fancy prompt, I assume.
32
33 And I haven't changed this prompt for months or years, I assume.
34 Additionally this is the same prompt on my desktop, so I think we can
35 exclude this.
36
37 When I read through the output of "env" ... nothing really stands out .
38
39 S

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Re: [gentoo-user] login to gnome fails "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>