[24243] in Source-Commits
/svn/athena r23841 - trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Jun 11 21:46:04 2009
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From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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Author: broder
Date: 2009-06-11 21:45:54 -0400 (Thu, 11 Jun 2009)
New Revision: 23841
Modified:
trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/changelog
trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/xsession.tcsh
Log:
In xsession:
* For tcsh users with AFS homedirs, start an xconsole following
.xsession-errors so they can actually see the errors. (Trac: #153)
Modified: trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/changelog 2009-06-12 01:41:22 UTC (rev 23840)
+++ trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/changelog 2009-06-12 01:45:54 UTC (rev 23841)
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
* Add a new GDM session for logging in without customizations, as well
as the Xsession machinery to make it work. (Trac: #148)
+ * For tcsh users with AFS homedirs, start an xconsole following
+ .xsession-errors so they can actually see the errors. (Trac: #153)
- -- Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:35:38 -0400
+ -- Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:42:31 -0400
debathena-xsession (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
Modified: trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/xsession.tcsh
===================================================================
--- trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/xsession.tcsh 2009-06-12 01:41:22 UTC (rev 23840)
+++ trunk/debathena/debathena/xsession/debian/xsession.tcsh 2009-06-12 01:45:54 UTC (rev 23841)
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
# 3. Run standard startup programs if the user has not opted out.
# 4. Run the user's .startup.X.
+# Horrible work-around for the fact that GDM can't read the
+# .xsession-errors file it tries to write.
+if ( "$DEBATHENA_HOME_TYPE" == "afs" ) then
+ xconsole -daemon -file "$HOME/.xsession-errors"
+ XCONSOLE=$!
+endif
+
set initdir=/usr/lib/init
setenv XSESSION $$
@@ -45,5 +52,11 @@
(source ~/.startup.X &)
endif
+# If we got this far, then there were no errors that the user /really/
+# needed to see, so get rid of the ugly xconsole
+if ( "$DEBATHENA_HOME_TYPE" == "afs" ) then
+ kill $XCONSOLE
+endif
+
# Proceed with the session command, which has been passed as arguments.
exec $argv:q
