Fedora core 7

[vu pham]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:49 -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:35:27 -0500
> vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:23 -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:03:50 -0500
> > > vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:40 -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > > > All
> > > > > 
> > > > >   I have a very bad problem. This afternoon had some kind of wird stuff happening to my system. So I rebooted the system. Now I can open an root session, but not a user session.
> > > > > In fact ls -al returns nothing on the conso;le screen in command line. I can go anywhere, just can not see anything. In root console all is normal. Anyone know how to fix this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > A 3 week old FC 7 install.
> > > > > 
> > > > Can you ssh to this system from another one ? If so, then try ls -al
> > > > from the remote system.
> > > > 
> > > > I have no experience with FC7, but I think may be some wrong settings of
> > > > terminal ?
> > > > 
> > > > Vu
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Vu
> > > 
> > >   Yes, works the same, root sees everything, user sees nothing. When I do try to login to user, I get /home/.dmrc being skipped, .bmrc must be 644 and users' home dir must be xrw for user.
> > > 
> > 
> > Does 'which ls' show the same when you log in as root and as non-root
> > user ?
> > 
> > Have you tried /bin/ls instead of just ls ?
> > 
> > Vu
> > 
> > 
> Vu
> 
> That does work, /bin/ls /bin/ls -al, now I see the proper listing, it seems like a script is hosed or missing to install bash or the user settings.
> 

My F7 , which was installed two hours ago, shows ls is an alias 

alias ls='ls --color=tty'
        /bin/ls

Maybe you have some wrong settings of the tty.

You can try 'unalias ls' to clear that settings then you can use just ls
instead of having to type the full path /bin/ls.

Vu