Bug 3757
| Summary: | /etc/profile.d/kde.csh screwed up in updated package | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | hugues.talbot |
| Component: | kdesupport | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-06-29 15:45:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This issue has been forwarded to a developer for further action. |
updated package kdesupport-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm from June 24th has a trivial bug in /etc/profile.d/kde.csh, it contains the line: kdepath="${KDEDIR}/bin" Of cource tcsh or csh are unable to parse this. The result is that anyone using csh or tcsh as their default shell will see this upon login: =============================================== Last login: Sun Jun 27 14:53:32 1999 from talbot.home.nsw.cmis.csiro.au No mail. kdepath=/usr/bin: Command not found. kdepath: Undefined variable. [talbot@mascot ~]$ ================================================ The user's .login and .cshrc files are ignored. This is hard to trace and infuriating.... To compensate, the fix is rather obvious. It took me aaages to find the bug and I really hated the packaged maintainer for a few minutes, but eh, that's life. Thanks for the free software and keep up the good work.