Bug#758810: [gdm3] gdm3: fails to start gnome

[Josep M. Perez Cancer]

Thanks for your quick response. Indeed that was the problem.

My shell configuration files were quite old. I have updated them with 
the changes in /etc/skel. In addition, for some reason I had 
.bash_profile instead of .profile, and the later was a symlink to the 
former. The symlink dated back to October 2008. I fixed this too, and 
now it is working correctly.

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Josep M. Perez


On 21/08/14 17:22, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 21/08/14 15:51, Josep M. Perez Cancer wrote:
>> Aug 21 13:28:37 bsccs243 /etc/gdm3/Xsession[21442]:
> /etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
>> Aug 21 13:28:37 bsccs243 /etc/gdm3/Xsession[21442]:
> /etc/bash_completion.d/pulseaudio-bash-completion.sh: line 6: syntax
> error near unexpected token `<'
>> Aug 21 13:28:37 bsccs243 /etc/gdm3/Xsession[21442]:
> /etc/bash_completion.d/pulseaudio-bash-completion.sh: line 6: ` done <
> <(pactl list cards short 2> /dev/null)'
>
> I think this might be the error that is terminating your X session.
> /etc/gdm3/Xsession is a /bin/sh script and sources ~/.profile.
>
> Please try removing bash-specific things from your ~/.profile, moving
> them to ~/.bashrc, or guarding them with:
>
>      if [ "z$BASH_VERSION" != z ]
>      then
>          ... enable bash completion or source .bashrc or whatever ...
>      fi
>
> It might also be useful to guard things that are specific to an
> interactive shell with
>
>      if [ -n "$PS1" ]
>      then
>          ... things that only make sense in an interactive shell ...
>      fi
>
> If that is indeed the cause of this error, I'll leave it to the gdm
> maintainers to decide whether this is a gdm bug or not. According to the
> changelog, it has sourced ~/.profile since gdm/2.20.2-1 in 2007, so this
> isn't a recent thing (but /etc/X11/Xsession doesn't, which explains why
> you don't see this in non-gdm).
>
>      S
>


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