tvlad Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 After i installed some rpm's from texstar like : fontconfig-2.0-1tex.i586.rpm freetype2-2.1.2-2tex.i586.rpm Xft-2.0-1tex.i586.rpm i rebooted and suddenly the prompt changed from root to localhost.I typed root, and them my password and it worked.But tha bash promt is also changed, it no longer says root@localhost, it says bash-2.05. I thought maybe something happened to lilo.conf.When i opened it with vim it had strange symbols, that i don't know how they got there like : @. Still i thought smth messed up vim and i opened lilo.conf with gedit, gedit which told me that lilo.conf is a binary file.How could this have happened, lilo.conf isn't a binary file, at least it shouldn't be. Do u have any ideas about what i should have to do to get things to work as before, because i'd really hate to reinstall Mdk9 the thid time, especially now that i've configured it. I'm not 100% sure that the rpms did that, but i didn't do practicaly anything else..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 I had the root to bash thing happen to me in 8.1. It continue to be a stable workhorse so I never bothered to try and fix it. If you find the solution please post it here, as I'm sure it's happened to others, and it is a little annoying. look at the second to last post here http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...5929&highlight= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvlad Posted October 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Yes, i know it's really annoying.And i don't get it, why has lilo.conf changed into a binary file ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 heh, just answered the same post over on the other board. anyway, again, the bash prompt can be changed quite easily by editing your .bashrc file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 I use grub, so maybe it's not a bootloader thing. I wonder what else got changed to a binary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvlad Posted October 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 True, but i'd still like to know what caused the change . Btw: IF you are wondering why i have a different name at clib-nihil is because i first sent tvlad, but i never got the mail with the login key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvlad Posted October 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 .bashrc is also binary : Could not open the file "/root/.bashrc" because it contains invalid UTF-8 data. Probably, you are trying to open a binary file. And any file i try to open with vim, it gives me this warning message : viminfo:Illegal starting char in line : viminfo:Illegal starting char in line : viminfo:Illegal starting char in line : viminfo:Illegal starting char in line : After the : are some strange characters like an A with two dots above. It's really annoing.I've made my mind, i'll reinstall MDK AGAIN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 First try to uninstall freetype2 and xft pkgs and install the defaults. Or go to linuxconf>Filesystems>Check some file permissions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvlad Posted October 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 I've done it, i've reinstalled Mdk again Now i'm thinking wether to install those rpms. Tell me smth, if i want to install freetype2 and xft should i uninstall the older rpms, if there are any, or should i install them over the old ones (again, if they are present) :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...5929&highlight= I would suggest just the PLF freetype2 rpm. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...=420&highlight= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvlad Posted October 19, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2002 Well i installed again the same rpms and everythin works like a charm. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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