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Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
I just installed bash and see it has an option to run bash-setup to boot to bash as opposed to busybox.

I did this as root and hit no where it asked to overwrite my ??? .bashrc and everything works, I boot into bash as root.

I tried as regular "user" but it did not take (took to to busy box).

so I went in as root, did su - to user and ran bash-setup.

it asks 2 questions just like it did at root. I hit yes to change to bash and no to overwriting the .config file (? .bashrc).

well it did not change me to bash and all it did was mess up my prompt.

can you smart people help me? ideally I'd like bash for the user account but if I can't have that I just want my old prompt back...
I ran into this a while back, if I remember correctly there is a problem with changing the login shell as a user. Try this to switch to bash:
Code:
root (or sudo gainroot)
chsh -s /bin/bash user
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