Terminal Not Working

[DaMonsterMonste]

hey my terminal isnt working on my mac that is running 10.6.5
when i start it up it shows an empty window when it should show a window that says something like this"
Last login: Sat Dec 17 14:08:02 on ttyp2
Welcome to Darwin!
h460db012:~ markyoung$
" but my mac upstairs with a hard drive that is broken shows text like that running 10.4.11
please help!!!!!

 

[kainjow]

You try restarting the computer?

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

try repairing your disk. What's the output when you do simple commands? Will they run at all?

 

[balamw]

Something like this happened before, check the thread for things to try https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1004694/

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[DaMonsterMonste]

try repairing your disk. What's the output when you do simple commands? Will they run at all?

i do everything right and it does nothing just sits there ill take some screenshots and upload them

 

[calderone]

Did you try restarting? <-- Seriously

 

[RaceTripper]

You might have an error in your profile (~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc) that causes Terminal to stall.

Try hitting Control-C to see if you can get a command prompt (by terminating whatever is stalled).

 

[balamw]

You try restarting the computer?

Did you try restarting? <-- Seriously

In order of likelihood of resolving the problem:

Restart.

Delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist.

Check your ~/.bash_profile and/or ~/.bashrc.

Try other shells /bin/zsh, bin/tcsh, ...

Try xterm

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