gnome terminal won't launch after changing .bashrc file

[HeberG]

Hello,

I'm running CentOS 5.6 and am having trouble with gnome terminal. After changing the .bashrc file to display the prompt differently the terminal won't open. I undid my changes to .bashrc but am still having trouble. I can launch the terminal as root, and I can launch other programs in the terminal using Alt-F2. I've found some posts pointing at gconf but I don't know what settings I'm looking at there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
-Heber

[twoHats]

you might want to give us the text of the file you created and the one you are using now.

If you break some files they will cause a login failure. .bashrc is one of these.

A good idea is to actually copy any file you are going to edit (eg)

cp .bashrc .bashrc.original

so that you can get the exact one back if a problem occurs with the edit.

HTH

[HeberG]

Here's my .bashrc file. The code I added is commented out at the bottom. The goal was to get the prompt to display in red text when I was root. That will still work if I log in as root.

# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile

# By default, we want this to get set.
# Even for non-interactive, non-login shells.
if [ $UID -gt 99 ] && [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" ]; then
	umask 002
else
	umask 022
fi

# are we an interactive shell?
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    case $TERM in
	xterm*)
		if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then
			PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
		else
	    	PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\007"'
		fi
		;;
	screen)
		if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then
			PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen
		else
		PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\033\\"'
		fi
		;;
	*)
		[ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ] && PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default
	    ;;
    esac
    # Turn on checkwinsize
    shopt -s checkwinsize
    [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
fi

if ! shopt -q login_shell ; then # We're not a login shell
	# Need to redefine pathmunge, it get's undefined at the end of /etc/profile
    pathmunge () {
		if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
			if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
				PATH=$PATH:$1
			else
				PATH=$1:$PATH
			fi
		fi
	}

	# Only display echos from profile.d scripts if we are no login shell
    # and interactive - otherwise just process them to set envvars
    for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
        if [ -r "$i" ]; then
            if [ "$PS1" ]; then
                . $i
            else
                . $i >/dev/null 2>&1
            fi
        fi
    done

	unset i
	unset pathmunge
fi

## If id command returns zero, you’ve root access.
#if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ];
#then # you are root, set red color prompt
#PS1="\\[$(tput setaf 1)\\]\\u@\\h:\\w #\\[$(tput sgr0)\\]"
#else # normal
#  export PS1="[\\u@\\h:\\w] $"
#fi


# vim:ts=4:sw=4

See anything out of place? I didn't think I was making big enough changes to warrant a backup file, but lesson learned there. I've also tried a couple supposedly "golden" .bashrc files from the internet and still have the same trouble, which makes me think I've mucked something else up without realizing it. Just for kicks I uninstalled and reinstalled gnome-terminal to see if that would help but with no luck.