Bug 149334

Summary:	KDE won't login if the user's shell is tcsh
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ori Berger <orib>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	kde-maintainers, orib, sndirsch
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Ori Berger 2006-02-08 23:24:10 UTC

If the users shell is tcsh (probably anything which is not bash compatible), and I try to login through gdm to a KDE session, a gnome desktop is loaded install.

How to repeat (on my system):

create new user, e.g.

useradd -m localtest

login through gdm to a KDE session -> works.

chsh -s /bin/tcsh localtest

login through gdm to a KDE session -> get a gnome session instead.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-09 12:51:54 UTC

Does the same thing happen with kdm or does it work there?

Comment 2 Ori Berger 2006-02-10 14:34:02 UTC

No; just tested and the same thing happens with kdm.

I only have one system to test this on, but it happens consistently, and the system is mostly a plain opensuse10 system (additional packages I installed are fuse, fuse-devel, pam-devel, sshfs and sshfs-fuse from Christpher Thiele's packages.

Comment 3 Ori Berger 2006-02-10 14:35:32 UTC

To clarify previous comment (rereading in context makes it look a bit confusing).

when the user's shell is set to tcsh, neither kdm nor gdm manages to get a working kde desktop; a gnome desktop is used instead.

Comment 4 Michael Gross 2006-02-13 15:05:47 UTC

I can remember that there was an issue kterminal not starting the correct shell once a user was not using bash... but the login managers worked fine anyway. I'm reassigning this with the request for a comment.

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2006-02-13 15:26:00 UTC

if both display managers pick the wrong session, then this sounds more like a general bug in the xdm scripts.

But the more interesting question is if it works with 10.1beta

Comment 6 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-02-13 15:35:24 UTC

AFAIK there was no change from my side.  Stefan?
Beside this, I'd like to see a test system to
be able to debug this.  All tests I've done had
worked flawless.

Comment 7 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-02-13 15:36:54 UTC

The comment was for Beta 10.1 and it has worked and it works.

Comment 8 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-02-13 15:38:50 UTC

Please test if the problem exists even with the current Beta version of openSuSE.

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2006-02-13 15:55:11 UTC

I tested and it works fine. FIXED with 10.1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134311 ***