Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.8-1 Severity: normal I couldn't run programs under gdb, and evolution wouldn't launch mozilla-firefox. Web searching showed that SHELL nees to be set for gdb to run programs, and it wasn't set.
Turns out my /etc/passwd entry had no shell. passwd(5) says "If this field is empty, it defaults to the value /bin/sh." So gdm should have set SHELL /bin/sh , yes? -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-win4lin Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.49 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.27 Package maintenance system for Deb ii gksu 1.2.5-1 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session 2.8.1-6 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-te 2.8.2-2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.21-1.0.1 Extended attribute shared library ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.2-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.12.2-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.8.1-3 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.22-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Input extension li ii libxml2 2.6.16-7 GNOME XML library ii metacity [x-window-m 1:2.8.8-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xterm [x-terminal-em 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
