Bug 11308 - Xesssion produces an .xsession-error file which looks suspicious
Summary: Xesssion produces an .xsession-error file which looks suspicious
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 10619
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
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Reported: 2000-05-08 21:07 UTC by Peter Lucas
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-30 18:30:02 UTC

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Description Peter Lucas 2000-05-08 21:07:02 UTC 
When I login using GNOME on my recently installed RH 6.2, I always get an
.xsession-error file, which looks suspicious. Always the first line is:

/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: [: too many arguments

I have tried to manually trace Xsession, but have not been able to detect
any syntactical errors in it, or in files referred to in Xsession. When
using GNOME the next two lines, which do not seem to be related to the
first error message:

SESSION_MANAGER=local/knuth:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1728,tcp/knuth:1087
subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device
rm: cannot remove `/users/plucas/.gnome//gmc-eJ0kRS': No such file or
directory

Again, it is not clear to me where this message comes from, but it seems
to be generated by GNOME. However, the first message worries me most.
Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-05-30 18:30:59 UTC 
fixed in a forthcoming X errata.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10619 ***
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