[4691] in testers
x X and .dircolors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Tue May 29 18:57:12 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:57:07 -0400
Message-Id: <200105292257.SAA01929@clockwork-frog.mit.edu>
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
I'm running sipb-install athena, updated to 9.0 on clockwork-frog, a
vaio XG laptop.
The initial terminal (entitled "Terminal") doesn't give me a prompt
until I hit return. When I hit return, I get the message:
[blank line]
x X
dircolors: `/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/b/o/boojum/.dircolors': No such file or directory
This is also true if I start a terminal from the panel (click on
"prompt") or if I start an xterm by typing xterm &.
If I touch .dircolors, I don't get the no such file or directory
message, but I do get the no-prompt-until-I-hit-return and the "x X"
message.
This is true if I log in without customizations, and this is also true
if I move my .Xresources aside (since I think that's the thing that
gets sourced even if I ignore customizations).
My homedir and dotfiles are readable, but I don't see anything with
dircolor, or "x X" in them.
Note that I haven't successfully had an xterm on this machine with
anything other than 9.0, since it has a graphics card that apparently
needs xfree4.0 to make sense of it.
-Laura Baldwin
