LTSP5

LDM doesn't set ~/.dmrc correctly

Bug #820417 reported by Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen on 2011-08-03

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	LTSP5	Fix Released	Low	Alkis Georgopoulos

Bug Description

I am running Natty on an LTSP fat client and server.

In /usr/share/ldm/rc.d/X50-dmrc-processing, ldm reads and/or sets ~/.dmrc depending on the chosen session.

The variables $LDM_SESSION and $CURRENT_SET usually contain strings like "gnome-session --session=ubuntu". In particular, they usually contain spaces.

This seems to make the lines

LDM_SESSION=$CURRENT_SET

and

NEW_SESSION_SETTING=$(get_desktop_file $LDM_SESSION)

behave badly as only the first part 'gnome-session' is looked at. The result (due to the further processing of said script) is that the session that ends up in ./~dmrc is always 'gnome-failsafe'.

Marc

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lp:debian/ldm

lp:ubuntu/precise/ldm

Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) on 2012-02-17

no longer affects:

ldm (Ubuntu)

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Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper) wrote on 2012-02-19:

Hello Marc,
from your analysis I take it that this bug can be fixed by adding quotation marks in appropriate places in /usr/share/ldm/rc.d/X50-dmrc-processing?

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote on 2012-02-21:

Fix committed in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ldm-trunk/revision/1414, testing welcome. :)