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 > At runlevel 5, if I switch to a virtual console and log in, then both > variables are set correctly. > > 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. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
