Package: gdm3
Version: 2.30.2-4
Severity: normal
I've had the following line in my .gnomerc for at least 10 years now to
provide environment variables, especially PATH, to my X session:
. ~/.bashrc
This worked well until I installed squeeze this weekend. Once I copied
my $HOME files from backup, I couldn't log in! I was getting all sorts
of weird syntax errors in .xsession-errors. Turns out that these errors
were caused by a link from /bin/sh to /bin/dash for performance
reasons.
I worked around this problem by running dpkg-reconfigure dash and
saying No when asked to link sh to dash.
However, I think it might be better to provide a means to incorporate
one's .bashrc instead when starting the X session. This mechanism might
also be useful for users of other shells as well. Also, what would be
the harm in changing the first line of /etc/gdm3/Xsession (assuming
that's the right file) to read #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh?
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (90, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii adduser 3.112add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy
ii gconf2 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-session [x-sessio 2.30.2-1 The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME
ii gnome-session-bin 2.30.2-1 The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii libart-2.0-22.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr11:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudit0 1.7.13-1+b2 Dynamic library for security audit
ii libbonobo2-02.24.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.24.3-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-5 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcanberra-gtk00.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii libcanberra00.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-20.88-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdevkit-power-gobject 1:0.9.5-1+b1 abstraction for power management -
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype62.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-02.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.30.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.18-0.1libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g1.1.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.2-1 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-2 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii libpolkit-gtk-1-0 0.96-2 PolicyKit GTK+ API
ii libpopt01.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-common 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libwrap07.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-62:1.3.3-3X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxklavier16 5.0-2X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.30.1-2 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.96-2 GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2Tab window manager
ii
