I am experiencing a similar problem as the gentleman who posted a thread on maemo-users in January 2006: http://maemo.org/pipermail/ maemo-users/2006-January/000450.html . The problem is that .profile doesn't seem to be loaded automatically. I set up .profile and .ashrc in accordance with the above-referenced post, and permissions and ownership are as can be seen below (in / home/user. The files are also duplicated with root ownership in /root). > -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 556 Sep 4 23:30 .ashrc > -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 28 Sep 4 23:04 .profile > ~ $ cat .profile > ENV=$HOME/.ashrc > export ENV > ~ $ cat .ashrc > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/install/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > export PATH=/sbin:/var/lib/install/sbin:/var/lib/install/bin:/var/ > lib/install/usr/bin:/var/lib/install/usr/sbin:$PATH > [myaliaseshere] Everything seems to work swimmingly if I source .ashrc directly. Things that do not work (.ashrc not read) include: simply launching an xterm; sourcing .profile; rebooting; launching a new shell; running "sh --login" as user. Things that do work (.ashrc read): "su -" as root; sshing in as user. Please inform me of what I am doing wrong here. Thanks. This is on a fresh 2005 wk 51 reflash with --enable-rd-mode but no other system modifications to speak of. -- Toshi Clark
