gnome-terminal help!

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

so i recently installed gnome 2 and all was fine. then one day, i attempted to bring up gnome-terminal. it pops up with a message where the prompt should be that says...

"Could not execute command: No such file or directory."

Now comes the fun part. It only does it when I am logged in under my normal user account. It works fine when I am logged in as root. Oh, my user account belongs to users and wheel groups.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

Looks like the home folder for your account is missing.
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cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i'm sorry. new to this. what does that mean?

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 7:29 pm Post subject:

mkdir $HOME, if jay is correct.
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cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

thats not it. i have a home directory. i even tried it for good measure. grrr!

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i created another user with useradd -g users -G wheel -m username.

it gives the same error

any ideas?

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

well, i managed to figure it out. kinda. if i create a user the same way but explicitly set the shell (in this case to /bin/bash) it works fine! grrreat!

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i had not explicitly set the shell before. the odd thing was, gnome-terminal would actually pop-up and tell me that error message. so it wasn't a matter of finding the application. it was that the app didn't know what to do for a shell. is therea way to set the default shell so i don't have to explicitly declare it when i create users?

fidler · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 162 Location: Utah

The easiest method I can think of is add an alias in root bash profile, that is:

File=/root/.bash_profile

hielvc · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 1:19 am Post subject:

useradd [-c comment] [-d home_dir]
[-e expire_date] [-f inactive_time]
[-g initial_group] [-G group[,...]]
[-m [-k skeleton_dir]] [-o] [-p passwd]
[-s shell] [-u uid] login

You can specify it when a user is added with -s /bin/bash switch.

hielvc :wink:

dol-sen · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 2:03 am Post subject: useradd

OH! I know this one! do a man useradd, the -D option is for setting/displaying the defaults

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ring_of_trout · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 1

I had the same problem and manually added /bin/tcsh (or your choice of flavor- /bin/bash) to the my user account (bayerd) in the /etc/passwd file.