[Techtalk] I've lost my prompt

[Glen Strom]

Hi all:

I have SuSE 7.1 on my machine. I wanted to add some aliases so, 
being used to Red Hat, I looked for /etc/bashrc. There is none. It 
seems that SuSE uses /etc/profile for aliases.

The file says not to put changes in it since you'll lose them during 
an upgrade. It says create /etc/profile.local. I do that. I add my 
aliases.

Now, to active the aliases, I reboot (I don't know how to do it the 
right way). Kdm starts up. I type in my password.

Nothing happens. X has hung. I open a console and try to log in as 
root. There's no prompt. I can type in commands, but nothing 
happens.

Where did my prompt go? I don't remember doing anything before 
creating /etc/profile.local that caused a problem. Does anyone 
running SuSE have any ideas?

Thanks.


Glen Strom
gstrom at primus.ca