[plug] bash 2 & xdm

[John Summerfield]

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Bevan Broun wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 06:42:08AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > 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).

I mentioned the problem too to the person who created the rpm. I suspect
and he agrees that bash 2 doesn't recognise it's being run as a login
shell. Whether the problem is xdm and its scripts or bash 2 we've not
decided.



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