Hello,
I also confirm that this bug can still be annoying with the latest versions of
GDM and LightDM :-)
And it can be an easy way to make some jokes just by modifying the .profile!
Then it will be hard for the user to understand why he can no longer start a
new session.
Is it maybe possible to just add an error message if there are problems with
the .profile file?
We can easily detect if there are errors in this .profile file as already
written before:
. ~/.profile || echo ERROR
But also without executing any code:
sh -n ~/.profile || echo ERROR
Thank you for maintaining GDM and LightDM!
** Also affects: lightdm
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678421
Title:
Error message for a faulty ~/.profile script
Status in Light Display Manager:
New
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gdm
After adding "function AddPath { PATH="$1:$PATH" }" to $HOME/.profile
made the Xorg startup fail. (At that moment I had already forgotten
the changes made to the .profile). As I had autologin that meant it
kept trying to login and finally showed me the graphics
reconfiguration screen. That sent me to a huge hunt for xorg conf and
setup problems.
Anyway finally tracked this down. I had used bash syntax in .profile
file whereas it was run with sh.
This is not a bug per se but I think a user mistake in ".profile"
shouldn't bring the whole xorg startup to a halt as it does with
autologin. I propose running user ".profile" and ".xprofile" scripts
so that Xsession script continues running even if they have errors.
I'm not sure whether this change would have some negative effects as
well.
1) Ubuntu Lucid, Linux egon-laptop 2.6.32-25-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct
16 19:48:22 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
2) gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu4
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