Hi, I reassigned #455694 to the gdm package, please see below and the buglog http://bugs.debian.org/455694
Regards, Gerrit. On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:47:00AM +0100, Andreas Kroschel wrote: > * Gerrit Pape: > > Hi Andreas, I can't see how dash can cause this failure. The error from > > gtk+ is because the real uid does not match the effective uid, but I > > have no idea how dash should have changed either of them. Please check > > again whether it's really the change of /bin/sh, and also post the > > output of `ls -l /bin/dash`. > > Sorry, I sent an incomplete mail by mistake. As I said, I can > reconstruct the behavior anytime, but I forgot to give some additional > information: The error only occurs when using GDM for login. If I call > startxfce4 from a VT, everything works. So maybe GDM is to blame. > > Here's the output from ls -l: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure dash > Adding `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash??? > Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash??? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-12-15 00:43 /bin/sh -> dash > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure dash > Removing `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash??? > Removing `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash??? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-12-15 00:43 /bin/sh -> bash > > Regards, > Andreas > -- > Don't worry. Life's too long. > -- Vincent Sardi, Jr. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]