Bug#455694: dash: crashes GTK+ when run as /bin/sh

[Gerrit Pape]

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:
> 
> akr at zabaione:~$ 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???
> akr at zabaione:~$ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-12-15 00:43 /bin/sh -> dash
> akr at zabaione:~$ 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???
> akr at zabaione:~$ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-12-15 00:43 /bin/sh -> bash
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
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