Thanks for your bug. What session did you pick from gdm? gdm has no reason to use .bashrc if bash is not used. Using to "shopt" to .bashrc doesn't stop the session to start on my edgy desktop
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Low Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- "shopt" xsession error upon login https://launchpad.net/bugs/60079 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs