Description of problem: xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.2-16.fc6 installed yesterday; ~/.xsession-errors file stopped growing (which would ordinarily be a good thing...); I found in my ~/.xsession-errors-:0 the following single line: "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession: line 15: unask: command not found". This appears to be a typo for "umask" in line 15 of /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession: " if ( unask 077 && cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null ); then" I fixed it, and ran "sh /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession", but no change - maybe I have to reboot/restart X??? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.2-16.fc6 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade/install xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.2-16.fc6; 2. Observe meltdown. 3. Actual results: Script failed as noted. Expected results: Script succeeds/ ~/.xsession-errors grows to alarming proportions with the usual error messages. Additional info: uname -a: Linux presario.localdomain 2.6.22.1-32.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Aug 1 15:15:33 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Smolt Profile: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=02d04cb7-5a0e-4b31-8f1f-7be6f2d85507
I just found this, must have missed it somehow on my first search: Bug #250882.
If you do change it to 'umask', does it work then?
I already changed "unask" to "umask" as noted above, '... and ran "sh /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession", but no change - maybe I have to reboot/restart X...'. So I ended the session, restarted X at the login screen, logged back in, and now I'm once again receiving copious amounts of warnings, errors, and other chatter in ~/.xsession-errors. So I guess the answer to your question is: Yes, if I then also restart X. Thanx and Regards, Vince Schiavoni
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To the best of my knowledge, this is already fixed/doesn't exist in F7, since my other two machines never showed this problem (they're both already upgraded to F7). Besides, it was a simple typo and I long since fixed it myself. Thanx and Regards, VJS