François Pinard wrote:
[Steven T. Hatton]
Every once in a while, when I start a new xterm, bash will not give me a prompt. This has happened on different machines, and under the last few SuSE distributions. It's a very minor annoyance, but it's so fundamental to the very concept of Linux/Unix (http://www.unix.org/) that it needs to be addressed. Have other's noticed this?
I observed this, indeed, but it was many years ago. I never understood the origin of the problem, and it apparently vanished all by itself :-). Everything has been working perfectly for me, in this area, for a long time now. I have no clue about what the problem could have been...
I have noticed the same problem (started with SuSE 9.2). In my case unsetting LANG env. variable did the trick. I found (in my case ) that if LANG contained ISO-8859-2 part (sl_SI.ISO-8859-2) xterm started only now and then. But I need ISO-8859-2 codepage, so I had to switch to 'mlterm' and 'xiterm'. Hope it helps Zvone