Bug 358253 – Change login_cmd example in the hal.xml guide to different one so /etc/profile gets properly sourced

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Hrabe 2011-03-10 15:47:14 UTC]

After HAL was removed from my system, I followed the recommendation in a preliminary gentoo hal removal guide and modified the /etc/slim.conf login_cmd line to

login_cmd exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

The unfortunate side effect is that /etc/profile is no longer sourced and most of the $PATH is lost.  Only the default_path from /etc/slimby.conf remains.
I am not sure if this really is a slim bug but without the consolekit management the plugged in HW does not get recognized by xfce4, so the ck-launch-session is needed.  A (not entirely satisfactory) workaround is to disable slim and revert to startx from a command line.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jan Hrabe 2011-03-10 15:50:15 UTC]

Please see also 

http://dev.gentoo.org/~tampakrap/hal.xml

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-03-11 07:15:29 UTC]

Not really a bug yet... The documentation isn't ready... Try something like this instead:

login_cmd exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session

[Comment 3 Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) 2011-03-11 13:18:33 UTC]

the guide is not public any more in my devspace, Samuli has to finish it and make it official

[Comment 4 Jan Hrabe 2011-03-12 18:28:45 UTC]

> login_cmd exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession
> %session

Yes, I can confirm that this works fine.