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 3.112 add 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-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudit0 1.7.13-1+b2 Dynamic library for security audit ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.3-1 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-gtk0 0.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve ii libcanberra0 0.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdevkit-power-gobject 1:0.9.5-1+b1 abstraction for power management - ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 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 1:2.14.18-0.1 libraries 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 libpam0g 1.1.1-4 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 libpopt0 1.16-1 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 libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxklavier16 5.0-2 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 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] 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager ii upower 0.9.5-1+b1 abstraction for power management ii xterm [x-terminal-emula 261-1 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gdm3 recommends: ii at-spi 1.30.1-2 Assistive Technology Service Provi ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gnome-power-manager 2.30.1-1 power management tool for the GNOM ii gnome-settings-daemon 2.30.2-1 daemon handling the GNOME session ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.7.7-4 nested X server ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6 the X.Org X server ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gdm3 suggests: ii gnome-mag 1:0.16.1-2 a screen magnifier for the GNOME d ii gnome-orca 2.30.2-1 Scriptable screen reader ii gok 2.30.0-1 GNOME Onscreen Keyboard ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.3-1 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key ii metacity 1:2.30.1-2 lightweight GTK+ window manager -- debconf information: * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3 gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3 -- Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> aka <bill.woh...@nasa.gov> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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