Bug#438866: gdm: Standard Xsession ignores ~/.xprofile

[Michael Pronath]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.18.4-1
Severity: normal


The Gnome Display Manager Reference Manual says in section
"Configuration", 6.2.1 Daemon Configuration, item "BaseXsession" that
the standard script /etc/gdm/Xsession shipped with GDM will source the
files /etc/profile, /etc/xprofile, ~/.xprofile
I observe that this does not work in the Debian package.
I'm not sure if this is a problem in gdm, or a deviation of Debian
that's not mentioned in README.Debian.  With 2.18.1-2, the upstream
version of Xsession is copied to the package, says the changelog.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3mcp
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.63                Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.2               Debian configuration management sy
ii  fluxbox [x-window-ma 0.9.14-1.2          Highly configurable and low resour
ii  gksu                 1.3.6-1             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.14.3-5            The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.14.2-1            The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  icewm [x-window-mana 1.2.30-1            wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii  larswm [x-window-man 7.5.3-1             Lars Window Manager with tiled win
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.19-3            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.18.0-2            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.25-1            Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                2.6-2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2            1.4.6-1.1           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.1.1-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.74-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1              1:1.0.2-2           X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1       2.4.1-2             generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.6.2-1           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.12.12-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.14.0-2            A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.10.13-1           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules       0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.76-22             Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.16.5-1            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.10-2              lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.16.1-2            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common      2.16.1-2            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          2.0.15-2            SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-8           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             2:1.0.0-7           X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6              1:1.0.0-3           X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1          1.1.3-1             X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6            1:1.0.0-4           X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6             1:1.0.0-4           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3           1:4.0.1-5           X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6               1:1.0.0-5           X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1         1:1.0.1-4           X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2              2.6.29.dfsg-1       GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.2.1-1           X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.0.2-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base             3.1-5               Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.14.5-1          A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  rxvt-beta [x-termina 2.7.10-0.1          VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20061004-1 a window manager for X11
ii  wmaker [x-window-man 0.92.0-6.1          NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii  xbase-clients        1:7.1.ds-2          miscellaneous X clients
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 222-1etch1          X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20050306-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  gdm-themes                <none>         (no description available)
ii  whiptail                  0.51.6-20      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xnest                     1:1.0.2-9      Nested X server
ii  zenity                    2.14.3-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm