Bug#327191: kdm resets after login because of problem in ~/*profile
Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.4.2-2
Severity: important
Because KDM sources the ~/*profile login scripts in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsessions
and because of previously (and as yet) undetected problems in these scripts,
KDM resets after login, considering the session has ended. These scripts
worked fine previously (and still do, in, say, GDM). Obviously this is a
user error, but it is uncovered by the new sourcing behaviour. Because
there was no problem in KDM itself, and the session exited 'normally', the
problem was very difficult to track down.
This effectively rendered KDM useless.
It would be useful to warn the user of this 'new' behaviour, maybe in
/usr/share/doc/NEWS.Debian.
John de Largentaye
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.4.2-2 core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii kdebase-data 4:3.4.2-2 shared data files for the KDE base
ii kdelibs4c2 4:3.4.2-3 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-6 GCC support library
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-23 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-23 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.4-7 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxau6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Authentication library
ii libxdmcp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii libxtst6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System event recording an
ii xbase-clients 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
Versions of packages kdm recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-2 Log rotation utility
-- debconf information excluded
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