[Bug 48876] gnome-session fails when "alias ls='ls --color'" in .profile

Spliffster simon at wunderlin.net
Wed Jun 7 16:37:10 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-session

the summary says it all.

my .profile file looks like this:
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#alias ls="ls --color"
alias r="ssh -X 10.0.0.32";
alias rr="ssh -X 10.0.0.32 sudo";

export PATH=.:/home/spliffy/bin:/home/spliffy/bin/bpmdj-2.9:$PATH
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my default shell is bash. when i uncomment the first line in my .profile
file then after entering user/pw in gdm, launching the gnome-session
will fail with no meaningfull error message.

the .xsession-errors looks like this
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spliffy at bpmdj:~$ cat .xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "spliffy"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
 ... and here a message that gnome-term (or xterm) will be loaded ...
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** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

** Bug 39682 has been marked a duplicate of this bug

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gnome-session fails when "alias ls='ls --color'" in .profile
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48876




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