Bug 72262 – .bashrc evaluated before /etc/profile.d/ in xterms

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Bug 72262 - .bashrc evaluated before /etc/profile.d/ in xterms

Summary:	.bashrc evaluated before /etc/profile.d/ in xterms

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gnome-core (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Havoc Pennington
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2002-08-22 11:31 EDT by Keith Howanitz
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:45 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-08-29 19:03:23 EDT
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Description Keith Howanitz 2002-08-22 11:31:06 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408

Description of problem:
.bashrc is evaluated before the scripts in /etc/profile.d/ in all terms started
in gnome so that user defined aliases are overwritten.  i.e. placing the line
alias ls='ls -AF --color' in .bashrc is overwritten by /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh
with alias ls='ls --color=tty'.  Users should be able to modify ls by placing an
alias for ls in ~/.bashrc

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.modify ~/.bashrc
2.start gnome 
3.start a gnome term
4.enter ls
	

Actual Results:  ls resulted in ls --color=tty

Expected Results:  ls should have been aliased ls -AF --color

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-08-29 19:03:10 EDT

hp: How does gnome launch its shells?
This works just as intended in KDE...

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-29 19:17:27 EDT

works fine in gnome for me too, in rawhide.

In 7.3 if it doesn't work I'm not sure what's wrong... maybe 
you need to toggle the "--login" or "login shell" option in gnome-terminal
preferences.

Comment 3 Mike McLean 2002-09-02 16:12:08 EDT

The .bashrc in /etc/skel sources /etc/bashrc, which in turn sources the scripts
in /etc/profile.d.  Is it possible that these lines are still in your .bashrc
and occur after your modifications?

Experimenting with strace reveals the following order of access in various
situations:

bash --login

  /etc/profile
  ...which in turn sources /etc/profile.d scripts
  ~/.bash_profile 
  ...which in turn sources ~/.bashrc
     ...which in turn sources /etc/bashrc
        ...which in turn sources /etc/profile.d scripts again

  yes, only /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are sourced directly in this case.
If you remove this line from .bash_profile, ~/.bashrc (and hence /etc/bashrc)
will not be sourced in this case.

bash -norc

  none of these files are sourced

bash

  ~/.bashrc is sourced
  ...which in turn sources /etc/bashrc
     ...which in turn sources the /etc/profile scripts


In *all* of these cases, user controlled config files have the final say.

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