GDM not starting Gnome or KDE because of bash_completion

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Nov 24 13:30:21 UTC 2005


Paul Dickson wrote:

>I finally tracked down why I couldn't start Gnome from GDM, but I could
>from startx.  bash_completion was being initialized twice
>by /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession.  Once as ". /etc/profile" and again as ".
>$HOME/.profile" which was doing a ". /etc/profile" also.
>
>I placed an "echo" command before and after the .profile is referenced.
>The first one is hit, but not the second.
>
>This problem didn't hit me until I installed the modular X, so who do I
>file the bug report against?
>
>  
>
If you got the package from Fedora Extras you can file it against the 
component in http://bugzilla.redhat.com

regards
Rahul




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