Bug#896817: /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session: bash: ligne 0 : exec: -l : option non valable

[Stéphane Glondu]

Le 2018-04-24 19:33, Simon McVittie a écrit :
>> Since very recently, when I try to log in with default choice, it does
>> not work.
> 
> (Retitled to something a little less generic.)
> 
> Please try editing /usr/bin/gnome-session (it's a shell script) and
> making it log what it's doing:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> echo "SHELL: $SHELL" >&2
> echo "XDG_SESSION_CLASS: $XDG_SESSION_CLASS" >&2
> echo "XDG_SESSION_TYPE: $XDG_SESSION_TYPE" >&2
> echo "\$0: $0" >&2
> echo "bash: $(command -v bash)" >&2
> echo "BASH_VERSION: $(bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION')" >&2
> 
> for arg in "$@"; do
>     echo "\$@: $arg" >&2
> done
> 
> echo "end of \$@"
> 
> ... continue with what the script does now ...
> 
> Then try logging in again, in the same way. You should get more 
> information
> logged.

I cannot reproduce the bug any more. I'm not sure what "the default 
choice" was when I made my initial report. But I could proceed by 
selection "GNOME on Xorg".

Here is what appears in /var/log/user.log when I select "GNOME":

Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: SHELL: 
/bin/zsh
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: 
XDG_SESSION_CLASS:
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: 
XDG_SESSION_TYPE: wayland
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: $0: 
/usr/bin/gnome-session
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: bash: 
/usr/bin/bash
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: 
BASH_VERSION: 4.4.19(1)-release
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: end of 
$@
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: SHELL: 
/bin/zsh
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: 
XDG_SESSION_CLASS:
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: 
XDG_SESSION_TYPE: wayland
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: $0: 
/usr/bin/gnome-session
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: bash: 
/usr/bin/bash
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: 
BASH_VERSION: 4.4.19(1)-release
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: $@: -l
Apr 25 00:05:22 korell /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session[4753]: end of 
$@

Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane