On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:58 +0100, John Horne wrote: > > > The trouble is I do not know what the login sequence is when logging > > into an X window system. As such, I cannot say what is being run between > > the first run of /etc/profile and the second. > > It's not only X itself, it's the whole desktop environment. In principle > you can follow the breadcrumbs via the man pages, but this line > (in /etc/profile etc.) will add more info to your debug comments and > might be useful: > > echo This shell called from `ps -p $PPID -o comm=`, pid=$PPID >> /tmp/BASH_DEBUG > Runlevel 3 shows 'login' being used; runlevel 5 shows that 'init' calls /etc/profile first, and then 'gdm-session-worker' calls it again. > > > > Since I'm a bit stumped as to where to go from here, but it definitely > > seems that something 'odd' is going on, I think perhaps this should go > > up to bugzilla? > > Could be. It certainly doesn't seem to be doing what it says on the tin. > Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450052 John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
