[plug] bash 2 & xdm

[Bevan Broun]

On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 06:42:08AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I installed bash 2 from an RPM on my RH 5.0 system and now when I login
> via xdm the screen flashes and returns to xdm.
> 
> It seems likely that something someplace isn't recognising that I'm
> logging in so bash terminates and effectively logs me out.
> 
> There is absolutely nothing odd in xdm-error.log.
> .xsession-errors contains:
> [summer at emu summer]$ cat .xsession-errors
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: freetemp: command not found
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients: exec: twm: not found
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients: xterm: command not found
> 
> Note that PATH is wrong (should be
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/summer/bin after all processing) and
> TERM should probably be TERM=xterm
> 
> I have found bash being invoked with the -login switch and changed that to
> --login (bash 2 wants two hyphens) here:
> [summer at emu summer]$  head /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
> #!/bin/bash --login
> 
> login from the text screen and running startx works fine.
> 
> Any clues?

Your window manager is not being found. As a quick fix modify your
.xsession so that the line just after the top #!/bin/sh is
PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

(assuming your window mangager is in /usr/X11R6/bin)

As to why version 2 bash is not using the same path as ver 1 I havent
looked close enough yet (check /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc).

Bevan
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