Bug#563750: gdm/Xsession don't work with dash linked to /bin/sh

[Julien Cristau]

tag 563750 moreinfo
kthxbye

On Tue, Jan  5, 2010 at 02:43:28 +0100, try_and_err wrote:

> No working X (!):
> Answered "yes" (default) with dash (/bin/sh linked to /bin/dash)
> results to a few big letters on the screen, the only visible letters
> are (in german):
> ... problem
> ... mehr
> ... .
> ... e, sich
> 
> ~$ cat .xsession-errors
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> /etc/bash.bashrc: 11: shopt: not found
> /etc/bash.bashrc: 34: shopt: not found
> /etc/bash_completion: 44: Bad substitution
> 
> /etc/bash_completion:
> 11:shopt -s checkwinsize
> 32:if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
> 33:    . /etc/bash_completion
> 34:fi
> 
> /etc/bash_completion:
> 44:UNAME=${UNAME/CYGWIN_*/Cygwin}
> 
Thanks for your report.  I don't understand how you get /etc/bashrc.d
read in from /etc/gdm/Xsession.  If you still have this issue, can you
add set -x somewhere at the top of /etc/gdm/Xsession to see what's going
on?

Thanks,
Julien
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