Newbie here running RH9 as web server.

I was messing around with my user profile and group. And was also messing around with Apache settings (default and virtual dmains).

I can't imagine what I changed to cause this, but now I can't type anything into a terminal (console) window. I type and nothing happens. I no longer have my user name as the prompt in the window when it opens either - just a blinking square.

my keyboard works in all the applets and in a text editor, but not in the console window.

Any idea's?

Also, how does one become SU from the Gnome GUI?

Thanks.

Tom

Ya didn't say if the cursor moves when you type... you might have changed the text colour to the same as the background colour... damn hard to see in that case ;-)

If commands, like exit which give feed back by closing the window on you, work, that may be the problem. Otherwise I am out of ideas. I dont know what terminal program you are using, so I cant say how to change the colour back, but if you did it once , you can do it again right!!

good luck.

I figured out what happened here when I reloaded Linux and it happened again.

I have 2 identical drives that I performed a

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

command to clone my HD to my 2nd HD. Everything worked OK until I rebooted and that happened, again.

Nothing in the console window but a black square that appeared to be the prompt, only I couldn't do anything with it.

Instead of reloading again, I simply removed the 2nd drive and all is back to normal. It has something to do with loading Linux with 2 HDs that both have a boot sector, I guess. It recognised the error, on boot, but loaded normally, except I can't use the console - which puts me dead in the water for all admin purposes.

I don't have a backup tape, and I like the DD command better than dumping partitions onto the 2nd HD because I can have a bootable HD in case of recovery issues.

Any idea how to get around this?

Thanks,

Tom