larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) (05/09/90)
I'm trying to get gnu bash 1.05 (with official patch) running on our machines. I am having some trouble with it though. Everything seems to compile clean. But when I run it, trouble ensues. If I run it from the console on one of the M/120's and then log off, I can no longer log in on the console. All attempts to log in are met with the message 'Sorry: Cannot read your password'. If I attempt to login on an account that has no password, I can get in. The other problem is seen when starting bash from an rlogin session. In this case the terminal parameters seem messed up , yet I cannot determine what is wrong. I do not get a newline echoed when I press 'enter', for example, if I press enter a couple of times, I get ... bash$ bash$ bash$ rather than bash$ bash$ bash$ and associated with this, the trailing few lines of any output are not displayed. Output from '/bin/stty -a' looks okay. there are a number of other problems, but these two seem to be the most difficult to resolve. Does anyone have any ideas to offer? If it matters, the M/120's are running 4.0 and the RC2030's 4.10. Has MIPS attempted to port bash? I'd be even happier if ksh was available, but I understand from our local distributor that it is not in the works :-(. Thanks, -Larry