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

[Jonathan Guthrie]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:21:28AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> > After today's upgrade, no matter which session I try to start, gdm fails to
> > start that session and starts the Failsafe xterm session instead.  I can
> > manually start gnome-session and it works, but it will not start
> > automatically.
 
>  Do you have a .profile, .xprofile, /etc/profile or /etc/xprofile?  Does
>  moving them away help your login?

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'"

My .profile file before I made the changes (it's the one that doesn't
work.):

#export NETHACKOPTIONS=color,pickup:$,name:Jonathan,windowtype:X11
export NETHACKOPTIONS=color,pickup:$,IBMgraphics,name:Jonathan
# export MIBS=IP-MIB:IF-MIB:TCP-MIB:UDP-MIB:SNMPv2-MIB:RFC1213-MIB:UCD-SNMP-MIB:ASCEND-ADSL-CAP-MIB:ASCEND-CALL-MIB:ASCEND-EVENT-MIB:ASCEND-FIREWALL-MIB:ASCEND-LANMODEM-MIB:ASCEND-MCAST-MIB:ASCEND-RADIUS-MIB:ASCEND-SDSL-MIB:ASCEND-SESSION-MIB:ASCEND-WAN-MIB:RFC1253-MIB:RFC1315-MIB:RFC1317-MIB:RFC1398-MIB:RFC1406-MIB:Modem-MIB
# export MIBFILE=`cat ~/miblist`
#export PATH=/home/jguthrie/bin:$PATH
alias ls='ls --color=always'
#export TERM=linux-c
eval `dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors`
export TZ=CST6CDT
export CVSROOT=:ext:jguthrie at snippets.snippets.org:/var/cvs/blair

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Jonathan Guthrie (jguthrie at brokersys.com)
Sto pro veritate