Bug#354523: xserver-xorg: .bashrc can cause Xsession error on login
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For quite a while now, every time I logged in with a certain user, an X dialog box would pop up that said that there were too many arguments provided, and that it was falling back to the default session. I'd click okay, and then it would happen one more time, and after dismissing it KDE would log in fine. Finally I used rgrep to track down that error message, and added a line in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args to write the arguments it was receiving to a file. Then I checked that file, and found that it was receiving bell-style none arguments. I found those in my .bashrc file, above these lines: # If running interactively, then: if [ $PS1 ]; then I moved set bell-style none below that, and the problem--finally--went away. I'm filing this bug because it doesn't seem like this should happen. There should, at the very least, be a comment in .bashrc explaining that anything above those two lines will get passed to Xsession, which could cause problems. Even better would be a smarter Xsession script that would intelligently handle things like that. Perhaps even better than that (might be talking over my head here) would be for Xsession to not read the .bashrc file, because it already reads .Xsession, as far as I understand. Does it need to read both? I'm not sure how .bashrc (or .bash_profile, since it often sources .bashrc, as in my case) is supposed to fit into the Xsession system. Finally, I hope that this bug report, once indexed by Google, might help someone else who goes crazy trying to fix this annoying problem. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAl+j5+GdyTDsrJsRAg3MAJ4wvm9kFY+Xp0vhQ9Eo1IweKUajXACggES3 4QKRV9sV/OyErl3txUMSLRw= =13ek -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#354523: xserver-xorg: .bashrc can cause Xsession error on login
At Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:10:43 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For quite a while now, every time I logged in with a certain user, an X dialog box would pop up that said that there were too many arguments provided, and that it was falling back to the default session. I'd click okay, and then it would happen one more time, and after dismissing it KDE would log in fine. Finally I used rgrep to track down that error message, and added a line in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args to write the arguments it was receiving to a file. Then I checked that file, and found that it was receiving bell-style none arguments. I found those in my .bashrc file, above these lines: Are you using kdm? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#354523: xserver-xorg: .bashrc can cause Xsession error on login
On Sunday 26 February 2006 20:45, Eugene Konev wrote: At Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:10:43 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For quite a while now, every time I logged in with a certain user, an X dialog box would pop up that said that there were too many arguments provided, and that it was falling back to the default session. I'd click okay, and then it would happen one more time, and after dismissing it KDE would log in fine. Finally I used rgrep to track down that error message, and added a line in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args to write the arguments it was receiving to a file. Then I checked that file, and found that it was receiving bell-style none arguments. I found those in my .bashrc file, above these lines: Are you using kdm? Yes. pgp7br5izMCEw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#354523: xserver-xorg: .bashrc can cause Xsession error on login
reassign 354523 kdm thanks At Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:05:33 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2006 20:45, Eugene Konev wrote: At Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:10:43 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For quite a while now, every time I logged in with a certain user, an X dialog box would pop up that said that there were too many arguments provided, and that it was falling back to the default session. I'd click okay, and then it would happen one more time, and after dismissing it KDE would log in fine. Finally I used rgrep to track down that error message, and added a line in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args to write the arguments it was receiving to a file. Then I checked that file, and found that it was receiving bell-style none arguments. I found those in my .bashrc file, above these lines: Are you using kdm? Yes. This is a bug in kdm's Xsession script, which sources $HOME/.bashrc and then /etc/X11/Xsession. Reassigning... Probably severity of this bug should be raised as it allows any user to override system policy through .bashrc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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