no bash prompt in terminal

[lagagnon]

Please tell us what you did to get that situation. Have you recently installed new pacakges, updates, made any system file changes, removed users, home directory folders, etc???

Try installing a different terminal program such as "urxvt", open it up and type "gnome-terminal" and show us any errors you get...

[DrHu]

Try this first..

• ctrl alt F1
  --try the terminal in the full screen console
  ctrl alt F7
  --gets the graphic desktop reloaded..
• If this works without hanging the system and does give you a prompt
• sudo apt-get update
  --will refresh the system, the /etc/apt/sources.list file
• sudo apt-get upgrade
  --clean up any older data
• sudo apt-get clean
• sudo apt-get autoclean
• sudo apt-get autoremove
  --you will get a list of what the command is about to do..
• env
  --shows the terminals, bash environment, which should have: as the last 4 lines..
  DISPLAY=:0.0
  XAUTHORITY=/home/mintuserID/.Xauthority
  COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
  =/usr/bin/env

Next try this..
In mint menu>control center>System>Users and Groups
--create a new user include in the admin group or match the settings you have for the first user as far as groups go..
Now see if that users' gnome-terminal has the correct bash prompt and does/does not cause any problems
If this works, the problem is something in your settings/customization for the initial user
--so some careful checking of the control panel settings is required..

Finally..last option...
Instead of reinstalling gnome-terminal, use remove and install

So, in synaptic (package manager) ..mint menu>system>Package Manager

• Search for gnome-terminal or terminal
• Mark for complete removal
• If you don't have bleachbit installed, install bleachbit and clean up your user files, by running bleachbit
  http://bleachbit-project.appspot.com/