Sure, silently just ignoring is just as bad. I just think that, it's a
mistake that shouldn't prevent you to login and start up everything.

The ~/.profile script can also easily be changed by non-experienced
users (ones who may not know terminal that well). If that user doesn't
get the session running then he'll be forced to use terminal.

The ideal case I think would be: everything starts up and an relevant
error message is displayed.

I'm ok with scripts in /etc/.. preventing xsession to start as that
requires sudo permissions (as sudo implies that caution must be taken).
Essentially my POV is that if modifying a script doesn't require sudo
permissions it should be relatively safe, meaning you should be still
able to fix it from GUI interface. Of course practically it's impossible
to do so, but it's a target to move towards.

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  Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

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