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PostPosted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 3:17 am    Post subject: Locks up and weird command thing? Reply with quote

Just got Gentoo up and running mostly the way I want it. I'm in KDE 3.0 right now with a pretty theme and everything, so I'm happy, but I've got a problem.

Problem A:

When things get demanding, like transfering 5.6GB of backed up data over the network, or installing UT (for some odd reason, it does it when I try to do this) it just locks up, totally. Not for very long, maybe 10-15 seconds. But I waited it out one time when it was installing UT, and it locked up one time so long I just gave up and hit the reset switch as much as I hated to.

I'm running a 1.33 GHz Athlon Thunderbird, 256MB RAM, 2 60GB ATA/100 HD's, GeForce4 Ti 4400, SB Live! Value. All that is running Gentoo 1.3a (as of last night). I'm running KDE 3.0.1 (I guess.... whatever the newest is).

Problem B:

When I'm at the command, how do I get it to show me what directory I'm in, rather then the version of bash? For instence, right now it looks like this:

Code:
bash-2.05a$


But my debian box looks like this:

Code:
cmiller@www0:/usr/local$



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had the same prob with things locking up[ during lots of disk activity and i think it was related to harddisk performance. try doing a forum search for hdparm and follow the instructions. my DMA was not turned on once that was on drive performance was much better
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That hdparm thing fixed the lock ups. I think a 12.4226 times increse in performance for the HD's would fix just about anything.

What about the bash thing? Also, why doesn't home and end work any more in bash? Delete doesn't work either. What a pain.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 12:14 am    Post subject: bash prompt Reply with quote

Do a search for bash prompt or PS1. PS1 is the variable you will need to edit to get the prompt to look how you want. I have seen many example ps1's in these forums.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 6:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slightly more specific, there are prompt examples in the Tips & Tricks forum.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If this is a Konsole problem (sounds like it) edit the first line of your startkde script (usually in /usr/kde/3/bin, unless you've done some customization) to

#!/bin/sh -login

That'll source /etc/profile correctly, and should fix your prompt woes.
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