Submitted 21-Aug-00 by Guillaume Cottenceau:
> More probably, your prompt is eating the last line which as no trailing \n
> when you try to print out the script.
You're correct. Forcing the echo of a newline afterward shows the correct
script. But, I still end up with a grey mesh ahd X cursor with no wm or
xterm when I type startx without having ~/.xinitrc. Further testing reveals
that it is the "#!/bin/bash -login" in /etc/X11/Xsession that is causing the
problem. Changing bash to sh seems to fix it.
Ignoring this specific case of it possibly causing problems, I personally
feel that most (all?) of the Mandrake supplied shell scripts that are
sh/bash based should use sh. Certainly, there are a few things you cannot
do when it is invoked as sh, but it is more portable.
As a zsh user, I would also like to see zsh repackaged so the the executable
in in /bin. Zsh provides an sh mode (if called as such), and having it in
/bin could eliminate the need for me to have bash on this system. After
all, I only have bash to satisfy the requirements of some Mandrake scripts
and because it is the only full shell that provides sh without having /usr
mounted.
> Else, upgrade to latest stuff, I did an install of cooker today, it works.
Actually, I keep fairly current. And the new system *does* work 100% for
runlevel 5. It's when you want to startx from runlevel 3 that it breaks.
As an aside, I know that chksession is supposed to decide which wm is first
by the number in front. But, it doesn't seem to like me :)
root@bladehawke /etc/X11/wmsession.d # ls
1kde 2gnome 6sawfish 9Icewm
root@bladehawke /etc/X11/wmsession.d # chksession -F
kde
root@bladehawke /etc/X11/wmsession.d # mv 1kde 2kde
root@bladehawke /etc/X11/wmsession.d # mv 2gnome 1gnome
root@bladehawke /etc/X11/wmsession.d # ls
1gnome 2kde 6sawfish 9Icewm
root@bladehawke /etc/X11/wmsession.d # chksession -F
kde
root@bladehawke /etc/X11/wmsession.d #
(This is what I get for upgrading kde :)
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