.bash_profile not run when using graphical login

[Martin Maney]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:29:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> The only reason I used a failed fsck as an example was nothing to do
> with actual filesystem corruption, and everything to do with fsck
> dropping you into sulogin and thereby asking for the root password if
> the root filesystem can't be automatically repaired.

Right, the confusion passed away after John restated it - or, more
likely a causitive factor, after I pondered it when I was quite awake.

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