Bug 34208 - choosing tcsh for user's shell prevents X from loading (gnome)
Summary: choosing tcsh for user's shell prevents X from loading (gnome)
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tcsh
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-31 05:04 UTC by ricdude
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-03-31 05:04:22 UTC
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Description ricdude 2001-03-31 05:04:06 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-0.1.9 i586)


If I set my user shell to /bin/tcsh, I can't login to X/gnome via gdm.  I
haven't tried alternate login managers, or KDE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. chsh user
2. select /bin/tcsh
3. try to log in to X/gnome via gdm


Actual Results:  X exits, and returns to the login screen

Expected Results:  my gnome desktop should have loaded.

if I change the user shell to /bin/bash, all is well.

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2001-06-28 15:02:57 UTC
tried the steps you mentioned. With gdm/gnome, I login, change from bash to tcsh
via chsh, logout and log back in-- successfully via graphic login and text mode
login.


Comment 2 Len Moss 2001-06-29 06:10:52 UTC
This might be related to the change in tcsh behavior introduced in RH 7 in
response to bug 19926.  At our site, it caused a user's .login script that
happened to contain minor error to be sourced during the startup of the X
session.  The startup failed because of this error with the symptoms you
described.


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