Public bug reported:
When I log on to a xubuntu session on a recent nightly build of
plucky, my .profile is not honored; environment variables set
there are not set in a terminal emulator session.
Here's what I did to reproduce the problem:
Created a fresh Virtualbox VM. Installed minimal xubuntu from
cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/current/plucky-desktop-amd64.iso
(the March 17th build.) Logged into the user created during
install. Started a terminal, edited ~/.profile and inserted
export PROFILE_RUN="$(date)"
then sourced .profile and verified the environment variable was
set. Logged out and back in. Started a terminal and did "echo
$PROFILE_RUN" which showed nothing.
It's like when lightdm/startxfce4 start the session it doesn't
run the initial shell as a login shell.
Switching to a different console and logging in a CLI session does
show .profile being honored there.
I also tried installing the Ubuntu daily and verified that logging
into the GNOME session there does run .profile.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04
Package: xfce4-session 4.20.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-10.10-generic 6.14.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 6.14.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Mar 19 17:11:26 2025
InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-03-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" - Daily amd64 (20250317)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: xfce4-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: xfce4-session (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug plucky third-party-packages
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.profile not run on xubuntu login
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