Having just wasted half an hour of my life trying to work out the
reasons that ~/.bash_profile is not sourced .. I can't find one.

All I wanted was my bin directory working:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
    PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi

Which seems simple enough (and is the default behaviour if
~/.bash_profile is being sourced).

For now I have popped that line into /etc/bash.bashrc .. but that's a
suboptimal solution if you've got something more tricky you want to
happen at login for a single user.

I can't see the downside of sourcing ~/.bash_profile?

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.bash_profile is not sources when X session starts
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66004

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