I also encountered this problem after a recent upgrade --- my .profile exec's
another more preferred shell, which causes gdm's Xsession to bail out entirely.
Is there any good reason for gdm's Xsession to source ~/.profile? It is very
contrary to the principle of least surprise: nothing else other
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> > Perhaps we shouldn't read these files and simply spawn the user's shell
> > instead, or perhaps we should force bash.
>
> I don't know because I don't know why those files are read. While it
> seems odd to me that aliasing ls would have an effec
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:59:46PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> > I have both a .profile and an /etc/profile and after some trial and
> > error, it turns out that commenting out a single line in .profile causes
> > my normal gnome session to work. I a
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:21:28AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> > After today's upgrade, no matter which session I try to start, gdm fails to
> > start that session and starts the Failsafe xterm session instead. I can
> > manually start gnome-session
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> I have both a .profile and an /etc/profile and after some trial and
> error, it turns out that commenting out a single line in .profile causes
> my normal gnome session to work. I am much happier now, if somewhat
> more puzzled.
>
> The line I comme
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> After today's upgrade, no matter which session I try to start, gdm fails to
> start that session and starts the Failsafe xterm session instead. I can
> manually start gnome-session and it works, but it will not start
> automatically.
Do you have a
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.2-1
Severity: important
After today's upgrade, no matter which session I try to start, gdm fails to
start that session and starts the Failsafe xterm session instead. I can
manually start gnome-session and it works, but it will not start
automatically.
So far, I haven'
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