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after selecting tcsh as default shell - can't start session

Bug #18356 reported by pepster
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnupg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

(not sure if this is the right place to report - please transfer if not to right
place)

After changing my default shell to /usr/bin/tcsh - I can't start kde anymore.
Here is the end of .xsession-errors

startkde: Shutting down...
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
kded: KDEDKMLDonkey::~KDEDKMLDonkey()
KWrited - Listening on Device /dev/pts/1
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
gpg-agent[8390]: SIGTERM received - shutting down ...
gpg-agent[8390]: gpg-agent (GnuPG) 1.9.15 stopped
Xsession: X session started for edna at Wed Jun 22 17:24:56 NZST 2005
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/61pgp-agent: line 5: setenv: command not found
Xsession: X session started for edna at Wed Jun 22 17:35:49 NZST 2005

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Vince Young (frink-exp) wrote :

I have experienced this bug. I saw bugs 7864 and 7620 regarding a similar problem with zsh, but the
problem persists with tcsh.

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Vince Young (frink-exp) wrote :

PS -- I encountered this bug using the Kubuntu CD to do an entirely new
installation. A colleague of mine reports no problems using kdm with tcsh as
his default shell after installing kde packages from an Ubuntu installation.

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Heiner (mephisto-gmx) wrote :

 (In reply to comment #2)
> PS -- I encountered this bug using the Kubuntu CD to do an entirely new
> installation. A colleague of mine reports no problems using kdm with tcsh as
> his default shell after installing kde packages from an Ubuntu installation.

This is simply resolved by changing
eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
into
eval $(gpg-agent -s --daemon)

in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/61pgp-agent

The -s ensures that gpg-agent uses sh-syntax as required by /etc/X11/Xsession and not the syntax matching the shell of the
user.

Best Regards
Heiner Markert

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Francois-Denis Gonthier (fdgonthier) wrote :

Any news on that bug?

Changed in kdebase:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Frode M. Døving (frode) wrote :

I think 61pgp-agent is replaced by 90gpg-agent which works. Please confirm.

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Frode M. Døving (frode) wrote :

The file in question is in the gnupg-agent package, not kdebase.
The problem seems to be a old configfile (/etc/X11/Xsession.d/61pgp-agent) laying around making problems.

Changed in kdebase:
assignee: jr → motu
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Frode M. Døving (frode) wrote :

* No activity last 11months.
* Can not reproduce.
Closing.

Please re-open if you can re-produce this.

Changed in gnupg:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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