Bug 50018

Summary:	Logon after install does not read .profile in user's home directory
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Neil Watson <gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Neil Watson 2004-05-04 13:29:16 UTC

After a clean install of 2004.1 I created a user.  There was not a .profile bye default.  No problem, I create one.  However, it is not read.  ~/.profile is not read read either by tty login or by xterm -ls login.

user: nwatson:x:1000:100::/home/nwatson:/bin/bash

I can work around by altering /etc/profile.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
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valetta root # emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.agsn.ca http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome
gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod motif mpeg
ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime
readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype video_cards_matrox x86
xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-01-09 21:49:46 UTC

from the manpage:
When  bash  is  invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-
interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and  exe-
cutes  commands  from  the  file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
After  reading   that   file,   it   looks   for   ~/.bash_profile,
~/.bash_login,  and  ~/.profile,  in that order, and reads and exe-
cutes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.

i'm going to assume that your user has a .bash_profile since that is part of default /etc/skel/