Re: no shell login initialization when logging in with Gnome? (Gnome 2.2/woody)
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 22:45, Daniel B. wrote:
> When I log in using Gnome, login-time shell initialization doesn't seem
> to have taken place (as if nothing invoked bash with -login).
>
> More specifically:
> - In gdmlogin, I select Gnome Session and log in.
> - I start an xterm (either from a window manager menu or from the Gnome
> menu bar at the top) or a Gnome terminal.
> - In the bash shell in the terminal window, when I look at my environment
> variables, settings in /etc/profile and my .bash_profile/.profile
> have not been applied.
>
> It seems that nothing in the Gnome login process runs a login shell.
>
> Shouldn't something in the Gnome login sequence run a login shell and
> start other Gnome processes from that shell, so that shell login-time
> setup files get processed?
>
> (This is with the Gnome 2.2 backport to woody.)
This is a bug in sid right now. I am waiting for the fix to be applied
and will roll it out to the backport.
Jamie
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