Bug#454097: After upgrade, gdm can start only Failsafe xterm session

[Loïc Minier]

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.

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Loïc Minier