Actually i've tried (switch to bash in /etc/passwd) and my n800 fails to boot I do get the progress bar until Id say 3/4 of the sreen and then reboot.

I hate ash !!! Won't even read its own .ashrc file !!!

Thanks for any feedback

P.S. I'm using latest firmware (installed last night...)


EDIT: Is there a way to revert to old passwd file without completely reflashing (i;e; loosing programs installed ?)

Dwardo

Well I've reinstalled after trying all rd-flags to no avail.

All I really want is ash (or sh) to source .profile on xterm start.
It does source .profile when I ssh into my n800 but it won't on starting xterm (Who knows why ???)

Worse...

ince in xterm under ash

if I
>> bash
then bash reads my .bashrc file

however if I
>>/bin/sh
sh does not read my .profile file.


I've tried the /usr/shar/application/hildon/osso-xterm.desktop hack, but It has 2 drawbacks.
1) If I open a second tab I'm back in ash
2) icon in left application bar is no longer that of a terminal WTF !!!


Thanks for any information/help

dwardo

if you go into red pill mode, the bash environment is listed as available for install...

I allready installed bash-m

using redpill & repos listed on maemo there is no other bash package in my application manager !

I've found that once in osso-xterm doing
>> export ENV=.ashrc
>> ash
will start a new ash that sources my .ashrc file.


LASt step is to find how to have this done directly on osso-xterm startup.
I Tried adding
export ENV=.ashrc
to /etc/profile, but to no avail.

dwardo

zsh is also listed somewhere.

Nooo! No zsh! Several users had problems with zsh. Application Manager freezes, the app can't be deinstalled and doesn't work. There was even a user who's apt was that much bricked, that he wasn't able to install or remove any other applications. Maybe it works in new firmware, maybe not, maybe ...

Zsh didn't work for me and I had trouble uninstalling it too, but I thought that someone would stop offering it if it was like a rabid dog prowling the streets...

Seems like I'm out of luck...

There is a bug filed (here:
http://maemo-hackers.org/ticket/25?replyto=3#comment ) for osso-xterm because it doesn't start a login shell that will then source the user's .profile file.


Seems to still be a problem in osso-xterm 0.13.mh21bora1 (the one I'm using)

dwardo.

wait, so is it possible to have my own custom commands in a .profile file?

I'm having this same problem, and I can't stand busybox anymore. I also got that nasty reboot cycle too when I changed /etc/passwd. Another thing that might work is to simply change the symlink from /bin/sh > busybox to /bin/sh -> /usr/bin/bash, which would be the cleanest way to change the shell. I'm too afraid to try this because I don't want to brick my 770 again.