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2010-01-11 , 19:24
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Hi,

i have looked for the bash on Maemo and found it in the repositorys. I can set it with chsh for root, when i set it for the user then the N900 will no more boot, can anybody confirm this? The only solution is to flash the device.

A other question is, if anybody has managed it to install gnu coreutils. I miss the 'ls' color support and a few programs in this package. Busybox is a bit - minimalistic I haven't found the coreutils package in the repo, perhaps anybody has compiled it for the target platform?

with kind regards

Patrick
 
ruskie is offline ruskie
2010-01-11 , 19:34
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Gnu coreutils(as gcoreutils and also gtar) are available in my repository(see signature).

Yes setting shell to anything other than sh will kill the device.
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2010-01-11 , 19:48
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ruskie: is there any way you can upload those to Extras-devel? Gnu tar would be very nice, also.

Also, it is best to make an icon that starts an xterminal running bash. I wish the bash package would include this icon. Is the maintainer on talk.maemo.org?
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ruskie is offline ruskie
2010-01-11 , 20:29
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I don't really much care for extras so none of my packages are actually extras friendly and most don't even have any fields and so on setup properly.

I find working with debian/ stuff annoying.

But I do provide deb-src for all of this os if anyone else is willing to do the effort to move it to extras then do so.

I already help out with another distro so I don't want to become a maintainer around here. No time and energy.
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2010-01-11 , 20:41
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I set /bin/bash as the shell for user in /etc/passwd and it works ok for me, obiously after installing bash.
 

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2010-01-11 , 20:48
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Did you reboot yet?
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2010-01-11 , 20:53
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Originally Posted by ruskie View Post
Did you reboot yet?
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<br>Indeed. I did this about a month ago and it's been fine ever since. I've left root with the default shell though. <br>
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2010-01-11 , 21:02
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Hmm each time I changed that it failed to boot.
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2010-01-11 , 21:19
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Yes, don't link /bin/sh to /bin/bash. BAD!

Just use /bin/bash in /etc/passwd for user and/or root.
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2010-01-11 , 21:24
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I didn't link it... I only changed it in passwd and it failed to boot.
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