Public bug reported:
Hi everybody,
recently I got some problems updating from breezy to dapper beta, so I
removed the update and re-installed it on a clean partition. After
changing my home directory to a NFS mounted directory the same problems
as before occured. I found out that it is about this line in my
~/.profile file:
alias ls="ls --color=always"
removing it let's gnome start without failure, inserting it prints an
error message like "I could not start your session..."; the message is
printed in /etc/gdm/Xsession
there are quite a lot of other alias statements in this file, but this
is the only one that makes problems; perhaps it's because of the
recursive definition?
my .profile is actually intended to be used as a script for the bash
log-in, as described in "man bash" (I know ubuntu uses .bash_profile
instead); Obviously /etc/gdm/Xsession also uses a file called
~/.profile.
Is this the same file or is this just a name clash?
However, even this does not explain why gnome fails because of such a
simple command...
regards,
Joerg
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Status: Unconfirmed
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alias in .profile prevents gnome from being started
https://launchpad.net/bugs/46010
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