** Changed in: lightdm/1.10
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
** Changed in: lightdm/1.12
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678421
Title:
Error message for a faulty ~/.profile script
Status in Light Display Manager:
Fix Committed
Status in Light Display Manager 1.10 series:
Fix Committed
Status in Light Display Manager 1.12 series:
Fix Committed
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “gdm” source package in Trusty:
Triaged
Status in “lightdm” source package in Trusty:
In Progress
Status in “gdm” source package in Utopic:
Triaged
Status in “lightdm” source package in Utopic:
In Progress
Bug description:
trusty and utopic SRU requests
==============================
[Impact]
In case of a syntax error in either of ~/.profile or a few other
similar files, the Xorg login is interrupted, and the user is taken
back to the login screen without an explanation. Debugging this
problem may be a time consuming exercise, especially for non-
experienced users.
With the proposed change, lightdm/gdm does not try to load such a
file, but shows a warning dialog instead. (A warning dialog is also
shown in case of some other type of error, which would not have caused
the login to fail.)
[Test Case]
To reproduce:
* Edit ~/.profile and add something bad, e.g. a non-closed parenthesis.
* Log out and find that you can't log in to a graphical session.
After installing the proposed lightdm/gdm version, you'll instead see
the dialog and can log in.
[Regression Potential]
Since this is only about improved exception handling, it does not at
all affect users with correct configuration files. The regression risk
ought to be minimal.
[Original description]
Binary package hint: gdm
After adding "function AddPath { PATH="$1:$PATH" }" to $HOME/.profile
made the Xorg startup fail. (At that moment I had already forgotten
the changes made to the .profile). As I had autologin that meant it
kept trying to login and finally showed me the graphics
reconfiguration screen. That sent me to a huge hunt for xorg conf and
setup problems.
Anyway finally tracked this down. I had used bash syntax in .profile
file whereas it was run with sh.
This is not a bug per se but I think a user mistake in ".profile"
shouldn't bring the whole xorg startup to a halt as it does with
autologin. I propose running user ".profile" and ".xprofile" scripts
so that Xsession script continues running even if they have errors.
I'm not sure whether this change would have some negative effects as
well.
1) Ubuntu Lucid, Linux egon-laptop 2.6.32-25-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct
16 19:48:22 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
2) gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu4
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/678421/+subscriptions
--
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
