Bug 100706
| Summary: | vncserver service never executes /etc/profile | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Richard Faasen <richard> |
| Component: | vnc | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 4.0-9 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-12-10 17:23:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is now fixed. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 Description of problem: When vncserver is setup and started with the "service vncserver start" command, the scripts /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are never executed. This results in some variables not set. In my case, because INPUTRC is unset, the delete key does not work properly (tilde~). After making some changes in /etc/init.d/vncserver (source /etc/profile ; source ~/.bash_profile at the su line) the variables were again set properly and delete key works as expected. This does not solve the same problem for the tsch shell. When I start a tsch shell in the remote vnc client, the delete key produces ~ and the INPUTRC variable is not set. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.3.3r2-47 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup vncserver, then: service vncserver start 2. From remote machine connect to the vnc server 3. In a terminal window: echo $INPUTRC, use the DELETE key. Actual Results: $INPUTRC is empty. Delete key produces a tilde~. Expected Results: I would expect $INPUTRC be set and the delete key to work properly as they are set in /etc/profile. This script should have ran at some point. Additional info: The /etc/profile script is started upon logon, and by starting vnc this way you are not logging on, so profile is not started. So strictly speaking what happens is correct behaviour. But /etc/profile usually contains stuff that is needed and has to be run at some point. I have not tried the -l option with su, but I think it will not solve the problem with both bash and tsch at the same time. The above is a work-around that works fine for me.