[10758] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.6E: /etc/athena/login/Xsession nocalls bug + fix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Fri Aug 13 16:45:02 1993
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 16:44:39 EDT
System name: binkley
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.6E
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Log in without customizations.
What's wrong:
I still didn't get the Athena tcsh as a shell,
even though this release is running the patch
I submitted to fix this (see [3089] in rel-eng.)
What should have happened:
I should have gotten the Athena tcsh. The reason I did not
is that the nocalls section of /usr/athena/lib/init/xsession
is never executed! That section of the code, which should
cause a message like:
16:16 xsession: Running standard xsession with NO user configuration files...
to be printed to the console, and where NOCALLS and SHELL
should be set, is *never* run because
/usr/athena/lib/init/xsession is not called with the
"-nocalls" argument, like it should be. Instead, NOCALLS is
set in /etc/athena/login/Xsession. This is wrong. Someone
must have added it there as quick fix or something. The
correct behavior is for it to call $initdir/xsession
with -nocalls. The following change should be made. Note that
there are other Xsession files for the sun and rios in
that directory which also need fixing if they are installed.
*** /source/athena/athena.etc/xdm/conf/Xsession Mon May 18 16:23:06 1992
--- Xsession Fri Aug 13 16:13:16 1993
***************
*** 19,26 ****
fi
;;
2)
! NOCALLS=1; export NOCALLS
! session="$initlib/xsession"
;;
3)
session="xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+280+220 -display :0.0"
--- 19,25 ----
fi
;;
2)
! session="$initlib/xsession -nocalls"
;;
3)
session="xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+280+220 -display :0.0"
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
None.
