Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678421
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