Bug#336305: kdm should launch Xsession with sh

[Dimitri Ara <dimitri.ara@gmail.com>]

Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.4.2-4

kdm launches /etc/X11/Xsession with the user shell (zsh in my
case). This causes bugs. For example,
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50xfree86-common_determine-startup (which is
sourced from /etc/X11/Xsession) contains :

grep -qs ^allow-user-xsession "$OPTIONFILE"

zsh expands ^allow-user-xession (to the list of files in the current
directory except allow-user-xession). A trivial workaround is to quote
^allow-user-xession. But this is clearly a bug of kdm, not of
Xsession. Xsession is a sh script (look at its first line) and so must
be launched with sh.

At least you should add 

setopt noextendglob 

in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession.

-- 
Dimitri Ara