Terminal not Working Correctly

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I’m not a strong linux user, but normally, when I’ve opened a terminal window in the past, there’s been something like “root” or some icon or something, with a colon afterwards, and then I would type. I can’t remember exactly what it is, but I know there’s something.

Now when I open a terminal, there’s nothing. It’s just black with my flashing cursor, and inputting a command doesn’t seem to do anything.

Is there something wrong with my OS?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I can’t mark two solutions to the post, I don’t believe, but @linux-aarhus as well as @altmuehlmani both linked directly into the problem. There seems to be some issue with NordVPN and it’s currently failing to update due to a lack of “libxml2-legacy” as a dependency. Someone said in one of the posts that it’s currently unstable and waiting for it to trickle down to stable. My assumption is that the recent NordVPN AUR update might resolve this issue, but I can’t definitively say. Check their answers and the links they provided if you suspect the same issue.

For me personally, I’ve been wanting to reinstall my OS for a while anyways, and I’m probably just going to do that and delay on adding NordVPN back to it.

I appreciate all of your time and expertise! <3

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I have seen several topics like yours, I don’t know what caused these other topics but I reckon you should look them up to possibly find the solution.

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I will look again. Maybe I just don’t understand the words I should be searching for exactly. It’s def over my head, for sure. Appreciate it.

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I tried to look up one of the topics - I am completely confused - the issue appeared to be caused by the nordvpn package :confounded:

I am thinking you may need to look at your ~/.zshrc if a slow loading zsh plugin may be causing this.

→ Zsh launch with empty window
→ Terminal and Console no longer starting
→ No ZSH prompt in konsole/yakuake

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i think you have a problem with a subscript like .bashrc or .profile. i think this is similar, if not the same as the problem in this thread.

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Thanks for the quick reply. I did indeed install NordVPN a couple weeks ago, so you’re likely correct, but the rest of that went completely over my head. I’ll check out that link you shared, though.

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I appreciate this as well, yes, it’s def related to the same issue!

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I’ve edited my original post and given credit to both of you up there, but I can only mark one solution, so I just chose the first one.

I appreciate both of your time! Thanks again!

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The nordvpn prompt from zsh-theme-powerlevel10k causes this issue, it’s been disabled in the newer version in unstable. It’s probably nordvpn causing the prompt to hang.

Right now it’s unclear whether the version of nordvpn currently in the AUR will fix it or not. Stable already has libxml2-legacy, it’s just called libxml2. You should be able to edit the PKGBUILD to use libxml2 instead of libxml2-legacy.

Do whatever you want, but you only need to change a single line to disable the nordvpn prompt.

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what kind of MITM/spyware tool is this nordvpn when it does not only provide a VPN tool, but also hijacks bash and zsh shells?

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Wrong supposition.
Analyze what they (their pacage) - from AUR - did to your zsh settings.

I have seen similar problems with mc in installations of Bunsenlabs, back in the day.

Some preconfigured setting was interfering with mc properly working.

… an oversight - nothing malicious …

“They” just simply didn’t account for it.

Wrong supposition.

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ok, then it’s just absolutely sht software that installs itself like it identifies as a windows software.

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… still wrong …

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if it being out of date can cause your terminals to hang then something absolutely horrific has gone wrong in designing it.

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Have you looked at what was the cause?
It’s been resolved now, from what I know and read.

The thing was never designed to work on Arch (Manjaro).

Or with zsh (and the special Manjaro config of it) as the default shell in mind

Keep that in mind.

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