Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aaarrrgghhh! Whahoppena Terminal??

[Gerald L]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:16:57 -0600, Gerald L wrote:
>
> > What's the output of:
> >
> > ls -l /home/btth/bin
> >
> > ?
>
> 	Answer : weirdness -- it seems as if it tries to run as well as 
> list it.
>
> address@hidden ~]$ ls -l /home/btth/bin
> total 4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 btth btth 143 2009-03-06 13:26 alpine_helper.pl
> [1]+  Done                    alpine_helper.pl mailto:address@hidden
> address@hidden ~]$ 
>
> 	Note that "total 4" -- if I go to a bare desktop, open btth's 
> home directory, and then bin, I see only the one file.

That "[1]+ Done" is leftovers from you running "alpine_helper.pl address@hidden 
&"

the "&" at the end of that causes the alpine_helper program to run in 
the background and when it finishes/exits the console lets you know by 
spitting out the "Done" line the next time the screen updates (such as 
from the output of the "ls" program or even just a simple "RETURN" 
keystroke causing the screen to scroll).

I was just interested to see if the alpine_helper.pl was actually owned 
by you.

You have some serious ownership/permissions issues on your system that 
are going to be VERY difficult to diagnose via email. There is 
absolutely no reason that kwrite should be the only editor able to open 
that file.

I'd suspect the fact that you couldn't open it using gedit or anything 
else is also caused by whatever is making it fail to run every time from 
Pan.

About the only way to even begin to troubleshoot at this point will be 
for you to sit down and start writing a book.

Word-for-word, command-by-command, what you do from the time you turn on 
the machine to the time it fails to work correctly. You're not running 
the same distro I'm familiar with so it still will probably require the 
assistance of others.

Gerald