I agree on the goal you describe, Egon, which is why I made an attempt
to fix it. However, while the "run ~/.profile twice" proposal was
rejected due to its disadvantages, it's the only way I was able to
figure out that would prevent syntax errors from stopping the startup.
I leave it to you to decide if you want to go for Martin's idea and
convert this bug to rather be about error messages. In the case of a
syntax error, the error message currently is logged in .xsession-errors
(as the last entry). Have no idea, though, how to make it trigger e.g. a
zenity dialog.
Unassigning myself from this bug in the hope that someone with more
experience from exception handling in dash will give it a shot.
** Branch unlinked: lp:~gunnarhj/gdm/profile
** Branch unlinked: lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gdm/ubuntu
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Confirmed
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup
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