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I am unable to type into the terminal to enter anything. I checked the preferences to make sure I wasn't just tyhping black letters an a black background. That wasn't the problem. There is a blinking cursor. Is this a permissions issue? Is there a setting somewhere to enable the terminal? Usining a 2018 Mac Mini running Mac OS 10.14.6
I want to use the terminla to create a bootable system (Sequoia) on an external drive.
How did you open the terminal exactly?
Did you enter a previous command?
Normally the terminal should show a gray box, not a blinking cursor when you open it, and you can type something.
Blinking cursor usually indicates it's doing something.
If you entered a command previously, then it may be working on that.
If it's asking you for your password, then it won't show anything but the blinking cursor. You type the password blind and hit enter to confirm.
I did not open a previous command.. It is a gray box cursor (my bad). It isn't asking for anything. In fact, I can't type anything into the Terminal.
it says [login: login: Could not determine audit condition]
and on the next line [process completed]
What is that about?
It tried to log in to something, and it's showing something it did previously and completed, but did not return to the prompt.
How are you opening the terminal exactly?
Are you clicking on some icon somewhere?
Try going to the "Shell" menu at the very top and selecting New Window and see if that opens a functional terminal window.
Morgan Britt wrote:
I did not open a previous command.. It is a gray box cursor (my bad). It isn't asking for anything. In fact, I can't type anything into the Terminal.
it says [login: login: Could not determine audit condition]
and on the next line [process completed]
What is that about?
That can be something that was installed, and that is now malfunctioning.
Or more likely, it's an odd issue with a login file that hit some macOS installs back then.
See this reply for a sequence renaming the problematic /usr/bin/login file using Finder, then launching Terminal, reverting the name using Finder, and then fixing the permissions with a sudo chmod and sudo chown command.
I opened the terminal from the dock.
Went to the Shell menu and opened a new window but got the same as before.
[login: login: Could not determine audit condition]
and on the next line [process completed]
Why am I Unable to type into the terminal?
