Bug 35935

Summary:	bash not processing /etc/profile with gnome
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Merten Gustafson <marten>
Component:	xinitrc	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	ak
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Description Merten Gustafson 2001-04-14 17:17:43 UTC

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Logging on as root to linux box using XDM. Starting a gnome terminal.
Preferences stored in /etc/profile are not available, i.e. /etc/profile is
not executed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. login as root using XDMCP
2. start gnome terminal
3. echo $MAIL
4. bash --login
5. echo $MAIL
/var/spool/mail/root

	

Actual Results:  echo $MAIL didn4t print anything until after bash --login

Expected Results:  echo $MAIL should result in output after starting shell

This used to work in pre 7.0 installations

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-04-15 19:48:43 UTC

If this is a problem, it's a gnome-terminal problem and not a bash problem.

I don't think it's a problem though, since all konsole, xterm, rxvt and 
gnome-terminal agree that the shell should not be launched as a login shell.

Comment 2 Merten Gustafson 2001-04-17 18:25:48 UTC

When logging on to the box using XDM and starting gnome, should4t there be a
first shell executed as login? When logging on to a console the /etc/profile is
executed, I can4t see why logging on using x-windows should be different.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2001-04-18 22:46:58 UTC

gnome-terminal has a prefs option to run a login shell or not. If you're worried
about X as a whole, that's the Xsession script in the xinitrc package.

Comment 4 Merten Gustafson 2001-04-19 21:52:43 UTC

Where is that prefs option?

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2001-04-19 22:34:38 UTC

On the first notebook tab, "use --login by default"

Comment 6 Alex Kanavin 2001-04-30 10:20:32 UTC

This is the duplicate of the bug #32408, please see it for the accurate problem
description and a proposed fix which I fully support!

Comment 7 Alan Cox 2001-05-19 20:29:11 UTC

Agreed. Once I realised it was not about the shell login properties but about X
clients being started with the right options it makes complete sense

Comment 8 Merten Gustafson 2001-05-19 21:20:52 UTC

I have read the bug description #32408. The fix I believe is in the original bug
report I believe. However, I would preffer if a RedHat support person confirmed
the resolution.

Besides, the -On the first notebook tab, "use --login by default"- entry didnt
give me much help.

Comment 9 Havoc Pennington 2001-05-19 22:34:16 UTC

Not sure how this will get resolved, but we may as well have only one copy of
the bug, so marking this one duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32408 ***