Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

[Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>]

> >        An interactive shell is one started without non-option
> > arguments and without the -c option whose standard input and error
> > are both connected to terminals (as determined by isatty(3)),
> >        or one started with the -i option.  PS1 is set and $- includes
> > i if bash is interactive, allowing a shell script or a startup file
> > to test this state.
> 
> Perhaps the underlying bug is that konsole is not properly identifying 
> itself as a terminal.

The underlying bug is either that you want konsole to exec 'bash -i -c
whatever' or that you expect bash to behave differently can it does.