In this post, the following stuff is explained:

Installing *the latest* GTK
Installing a user-friendly packet manager gslapt
Installing *the latest* compiz in a sustainable way
Installing...

Hrm, just had the same situation.

It seems the problem was that I was using a custom keyboard layout when setting the passwd. The login shell still uses the 'us' one by default, so it got the...

Hi. had the same issue, seems to be a general problem with slax usb bootables as the wrong shell is referenced.

One way to solve this would be

sudo ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh