[solved] LXTerminal has no prompt after update

Question

I’m running Arch linux on a Thinkpad T40 laptop with e17 as a desktop environment, but I use LXTerminal as a terminal emulator for now.
Today I start LXTerminal, and it displays a cursor, but no prompt, and I cannot type anything in it. I do know that:
it worked yesterday,
Xterm still works,
LXTerminal works if started as root from xterm (but not as a user),
and I can su to my user account from this root terminal.
The following packages have been upgraded between then and now, but none of them looks very promising to me:
glibc
binutils
curl
firefox
gcc-libs
gcc-fortran
ghostscript
girara-common
girara-gtk2
iputils
linux
logrotate
mupdf
run-parts
syslog-ng
valgrind
vim-runtime
vim
zathura
None of ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, or /etc/bash.bashrc has changed recently, but i can reproduce them below. /etc/bash.bashrc has my PS1 definition in it. I have been unable to find a config file for lxterminal itself.
Help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
# ~/.bashrc
# modified commands:
alias diff='colordiff' #requires colordiff package
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias more='less'
alias df='df -h'
alias du='du -c -h'
alias vi='vim'
alias ping='ping -c 3'
alias mkdir='mkdir -pv'
# ls:
alias ls='ls -hF --color=always'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias la='ls -A'
# safety:
alias chown='chown --preserve-root'
alias chmod='chmod --preserve-root'
alias chgrp='chgrp --preserve-root'
alias rm='rm -Iv'
alias ln='ln -i'
alias cp='cp -iv'
alias mv='mv -iv'
# new things:
alias up='cd ..'
alias upp='cd ../..'
alias uppp='cd ../../..'
alias upppp='cd ../../../..'
alias openports='netstat --all --numeric --programs --inet'
alias size='du -hs'
# for colored manpages:
man () \
env \
LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf "\e[1;37m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf "\e[1;37m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf "\e[0m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf "\e[0m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf "\e[1;47;30m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf "\e[0m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf "\e[0;36m") \
man "$@"
# ignore duplicate and blank entries in history:
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# tab completion for sudo commands:
complete -cf sudo
# run skype in a sandbox:
alias skype='xhost +SI:localuser:skype && su skype -c skype'
# ~/.bash_profile
[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
# /etc/bash.bashrc
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
PS2='> '
PS3='> '
PS4='+ '
case ${TERM} in
xterm*|rxvt*|Eterm|aterm|kterm|gnome*)
PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND; }'printf "\033]0;%s@%s:%s\007" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}"'
screen)
PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND; }'printf "\033_%s@%s:%s\033\\" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}"'
esac
[ -r /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ] && . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
Last edited by iemcd (2013-08-19 22:13:58)

Answer 1

karol wrote:The question is, why did you have dwvpts in your fstab in the first place?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1313371
Like the thread you linked to says, it's always been there. I do have a pacnew file, but the formatting is the same and it's empty, so evidently I just kept using the one I had.
Thanks though Jason, that does seem to have been the issue. And I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one caught off guard.
I'm marking this solved now, thanks everyone.