[SOLVED] manjaro update changes my default bash prompt to user1-pc% ! how to change it back ?

andrewysk · 12-20-2021, 06:34 PM

After system update to 5.10.84-1-MANJARO, as usual it changes my themes and desktop photo and this time it changes shell to zsh.. i how to type bash everytime to get my old familiar bash back.

Every update is a waste of my time to change setting back.

Code:

user1-pc% chsh -l
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/git-shell
user1-pc% chsh -s /bin/bash    
Changing shell for manjaro-andrew.
Password: 
chsh: Shell not changed.
user1-pc%

rnturn · 12-20-2021, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewysk

After system update to 5.10.84-1-MANJARO, as usual it changes my themes and desktop photo and this time it changes shell to zsh.. i how to type bash everytime to get my old familiar bash back.

Every update is a waste of my time to change setting back.

Code:

user1-pc% chsh -l
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/git-shell
user1-pc% chsh -s /bin/bash    
Changing shell for manjaro-andrew.
Password: 
chsh: Shell not changed.
user1-pc%

That's pretty darned rude, IMHO[1]. Anyway, try:

Code:

$ sudo usermod -s /bin/bash account-name

for each user whose shell has been changed.

Hope that command helps.

[1] - I had a vendor do something similar many years ago... right after we instituted new user account policies when HIPAA became law. A software vendor came to upgrade their software. Their update process arbitrarily changed everyone's password lifetime to 9999 days---an act that resulted in an interesting phone call between the vendor, myself, and our VP/IT. Lesson: Do not muck around with user accounts.

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rnturn

Code:

$ sudo usermod -s /bin/bash account-name

I ran

Code:

user1-pc% sudo usermod -s /bin/bash myAccName

but the outcome is :

Code:

usermod: no changes
user1-pc%

Since it didn't change, means it is still bash shell ?

I ran this to see my shell, it said is bash. but why is the prompting like this ? confusing.

Code:

user1-pc% echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Each time i have to type :

Code:

user1-pc% bash

to get back my default prompt

Code:

[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$

when i type "exit at my comfortable command prompt, it changes back to its default :

Code:

[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$ exit
exit
user1-pc%
user1-pc% echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
user1-pc%

What's is happening ? i guess it is not zsh shell.. my mistake.. Somewhere the system mentioned zsh .. hence i thought it is zsh.. (never use zsh before).

shruggy · 12-21-2021, 07:48 AM

If you're running Bash, echo $BASH_VERSION should print Bash version.

Conversely, $ZSH_VERSION is only defined inside Zsh.

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

If you're running Bash, echo $BASH_VERSION should print Bash version.

Conversely, $ZSH_VERSION is only defined inside Zsh.

OK, then confirmed i am running zsh shell. After pacman -Syu, it changes my shell from bash to zsh..

Code:

user1-pc% echo $BASH_VERSION     

user1-pc% echo $ZSH_VERSION 
5.8

user1-pc% bash
[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.1.12(1)-release
[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$  echo $ZSH_VERSION

[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$ exit
exit
user1-pc% echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.8
user1-pc%

Code:

user1-pc% echo $0
/bin/zsh

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rnturn

Code:

$ sudo usermod -s /bin/bash account-name

for each user whose shell has been changed.

I tried just now to usermod -s /bin/bash myAccName, but it still the same.. Do i have to restart system in order for the default shell change to take effect ?

I think it is not working regardless of reboot or not.
i

Code:

user1-pc% sudo usermod -s /bin/bash myAccName
 
usermod: no changes
user1-pc%

Code:

cat /etc/shells
# Pathnames of valid login shells.
# See shells(5) for details.

/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/git-shell
user1-pc%

shruggy · 12-21-2021, 08:55 AM

According to this thread on Manjaro forum, you'll have to change the shell in Konsole settings.

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

According to this thread on Manjaro forum, you'll have to change the shell in Konsole settings.

I have changed both gui method and both chsh or usermod -s method.. it still goes back to zsh shell everytime i start konsole or terminal view of dolphine.

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 09:31 AM

This pissed me off, i just uninstall the whole damn zsh package.

Now when i run konsole it runs in bashshell now.. but prompts me warning:

Code:

Warning: Could not find '/bin/zsh', starting '/bin/bash' instead.  Please check your profile settings.

[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$

This is why i hated update/upgrade in manjaro or EOS.. waste my time only when my system is running fine before this.

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 09:34 AM

I looked into konsolerc file.. there is notthing related to bashshell.
could it be stored in Breath.profile ? ?

Code:

$ cat konsolerc 
[Desktop Entry]
DefaultProfile=Breath.profile

[Favorite Profiles]
Favorites=Breath2.profile

[General]
CommandBarLastUsedActions=

[KonsoleWindow]
ShowWindowTitleOnTitleBar=true

[MainWindow]
Height 1024=950
RestorePositionForNextInstance=false
State=AAAA/wAAAAD9AAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPwCAAAAAfsAAAAcAFMAUwBIAE0AYQBuAGEAZwBlAHIARABvAGMAawAAAAAA/////wAAANUBAAADAAACgAAAAYAAAAAEAAAABAAAAAgAAAAI/AAAAAEAAAACAAAAAgAAABYAbQBhAGkAbgBUAG8AbwBsAEIAYQByAQAAAAD/////AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcAHMAZQBzAHMAaQBvAG4AVABvAG8AbABiAGEAcgEAAAHF/////wAAAAAAAAAA
StatusBar=Disabled
ToolBarsMovable=Disabled
VGA1 Height 1024=653
VGA1 Height 1280x1024=460
VGA1 Width 1280=853
VGA1 Width 1280x1024=640
VGA1 XPosition=427
VGA1 XPosition 1280x1024=0
VGA1 YPosition=29
VGA1 YPosition 1280x1024=519
Width 1280=640

[Notification Messages]
CloseSingleTab=false

[UiSettings]
WindowColorScheme=Default

shruggy · 12-21-2021, 10:36 AM

There is a screenshot in the thread I linked above. Sorry, it's in Chinese, but I guess you can identify what have to be changed.

Brains · 12-21-2021, 12:48 PM

Run this change shell command:

Code:

chsh -s /bin/bash

Then type $ env | grep SHELL
EDIT:

Quote:

user1-pc% chsh -s /bin/bash
Changing shell for manjaro-andrew.
Password:
chsh: Shell not changed.
user1-pc%

Noticed you did that already, perhaps because you are not "user1-pc%"
What is the contents of /etc/hostname?
Did you try changing it while running bash?

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brains

Noticed you did that already, perhaps because you are not "user1-pc%"
What is the contents of /etc/hostname?

LOL sorry, user1-pc is just a "name in disguise". i won't want to show my true hostname and account name on public forum.. and that name that you showed me .. was a fish escaped from net..
No worry about hostname and account name, i know those 2 name, there is no mistake on that part.
Sorry, i have no intention of misleading you, it is just for my own "safety".

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brains

Run this change shell command:

Code:

chsh -s /bin/bash

Then type $ env | grep SHELL

launch konsole:
**the " warning " error was due to me uninstalled zsh (because i was pissed, at least by uninstalling it, i will has got bash in konsole at launch)**

Code:

Warning: Could not find '/bin/zsh', starting '/bin/bash' instead.  Please check your profile settings.
[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$

[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$ chsh -s /bin/bash
Changing shell for myAccName.
Password: 
chsh: Shell not changed.

[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$ env | grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELL_SESSION_ID=e73adf3213844d0cb00ff87ccb2440ff
[myAccName@user1-pc ~]$

andrewysk · 12-21-2021, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

There is a screenshot in the thread I linked above. Sorry, it's in Chinese, but I guess you can identify what have to be changed.

I change this to /bin/bash (for all the profile that i can edit) :

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After hit "apply" and exit the konsole.
Relaunch the konsole, and check the same place again, notice it always change back to /bin/zsh abeit i have modified it million times.