Comment 4 for bug 678421
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup | #4 |
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I don't actually think that silently ignoring ~/.profile if it has errors is actually a good and expected behaviour. After all, the user just changed his ~/.profile and now restarted the session, perhaps to test the effect.
The best thing to me would be a dialog box that actually showed the error that the shell command encountered, and then exit the session. That might actually be possible with zenity or similar. We should at least ensure that the error appears in ~/.xsession-errors, then we at least have some point of feedback.
So from my POV the current bug title is "wontfix". I'm fine with renaming it to "better error message for broken ~/.profile", if you prefer that?