Hi,
I'm using Kubuntu feisty. For some reason, I cannot login to the gui because, /dev/null is created w/ 600 perms. And yes the relevant line in /etc/udev.d/rules does mention /dev/null having 666 perms. Supposedly this is a problem w/ udev.
My workaround at the moment is to hit ctrl-alt-f2, login, chmod /dev/null, ctrl-alt-f7 and then I can login to the gui. This needs to be done at every boot. I have 'cn' aliased to sudo chmod 666 /dev/null. Saves some typing :).
Now to come to my problem. I inadvertantly hit ctrl-n at the prompt and now the login prompt at the cli is displayed in weird characters. It's like when you type something in wordprocessor and then change to font to wingdings or something.
How do I get my normal login prompt back ?
many thanks,
Sharukh.
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Kubuntu feisty. For some reason, I cannot login to the gui
[ship]
How do I get my normal login prompt back ?
Log into command prompt and rename the .kde dir to something else. Then try gui login. You will loose personalizations in your KDE if any, but it may solve your problem.
On 8/18/07, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. lists@pavri.net wrote:
Now to come to my problem. I inadvertantly hit ctrl-n at the prompt and now the login prompt at the cli is displayed in weird characters. It's like when you type something in wordprocessor and then change to font to wingdings or something.
Does it remain the same even after a reboot?
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Rony wrote:
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Kubuntu feisty. For some reason, I cannot login to the gui
[ship]
How do I get my normal login prompt back ?
Log into command prompt and rename the .kde dir to something else. Then try gui login. You will loose personalizations in your KDE if any, but it may solve your problem.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with a gui login.
regards,
Sharukh.
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 8/18/07, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. lists@pavri.net wrote:
Now to come to my problem. I inadvertantly hit ctrl-n at the prompt and now the login prompt at the cli is displayed in weird characters. It's like when you type something in wordprocessor and then change to font to wingdings or something.
Does it remain the same even after a reboot?
I have to check that out. This is my clinic PC and I had to leave last night in a bit of a hurry.
thanks,
Sharukh.
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Rony wrote:
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Kubuntu feisty. For some reason, I cannot login to the gui
[ship]
How do I get my normal login prompt back ?
Log into command prompt and rename the .kde dir to something else. Then try gui login. You will loose personalizations in your KDE if any, but it may solve your problem.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with a gui login.
Yes I realise that. I had used the above option when my keyboard suddenly started going off after logging into kde.
Your problem appears to be a bug with udev. Have you updated udev to the latest release?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/53040
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/63031
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 8/18/07, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. lists@pavri.net wrote:
Now to come to my problem. I inadvertantly hit ctrl-n at the prompt and now the login prompt at the cli is displayed in weird characters. It's like when you type something in wordprocessor and then change to font to wingdings or something.
Does it remain the same even after a reboot?
Okay, problem solved after a reboot.
Thanks,
Sharukh.
On 8/18/07, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. lists@pavri.net wrote:
Now to come to my problem. I inadvertantly hit ctrl-n at the prompt and now the login prompt at the cli is displayed in weird characters. It's like when you type something in wordprocessor and then change to font to wingdings or something.
Does it remain the same even after a reboot?
Okay, problem solved after a reboot.
Thanks,
Sharukh.
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
When you get funny chars in your terminal remember its the display end of the chars thats borked. The keyboard sequence goes in just the same.
So with the wingdings appearing type "reset" at the prompt and enter. Your normal terminal should be back.
More often than not when a process outputs some crap to the terminal ( some bg process ) , it initiates a ctrl sequence which borks the display of characters.
This is more evident when you do a cat on a binary file etc.
regards, C
On 8/20/07, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
So with the wingdings appearing type "reset" at the prompt and enter. Your normal terminal should be back.
Oh cool, a command to do this. I normally just cat /bin/ls ;)
On 8/20/07, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 8/20/07, Chetan S wrote:
So with the wingdings appearing type "reset" at the prompt and enter. Your normal terminal should be back.
Oh cool, a command to do this. I normally just cat /bin/ls ;)
Wow both work. "reset" is understandable - its a command and its doing what it is supposed to do. But how does "cat /bin/ls" solve the problem?
On 8/21/07, osric fernandes osric.fernandes@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/20/07, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
Oh cool, a command to do this. I normally just cat /bin/ls ;)
Wow both work. "reset" is understandable - its a command and its doing what it is supposed to do. But how does "cat /bin/ls" solve the problem?
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The tail end of the ls binary has the reset sequence :) reset is a symlink to tset which is a part of ncurses package.
regards, C
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