On Mon, Dec 03, 2007, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > I have both a .profile and an /etc/profile and after some trial and > error, it turns out that commenting out a single line in .profile causes > my normal gnome session to work. I am much happier now, if somewhat > more puzzled. > > The line I commented out is "alias ls='ls --color=always'"
Hmm, a bit surprizing that this fails; what's your /bin/sh? Perhaps we shouldn't read these files and simply spawn the user's shell instead, or perhaps we should force bash. -- Loïc Minier
