.bashrc not getting sourced during Gnome login

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 14 October 2006 13:19, Constantine Evans wrote:
> stan wrote:
> > For some reason terminal sessions spawned from the Gnome window manager
> > do not seem to inherit variables set in .bashec.
> >
> > How can I fix this?
> >
> > 6.10, if it matters
>
> Sorry about the uninformed suggestions here. Gnome terminal is not a
> login shell by default (unless you change that setting), so it should
> not be sourcing .bash_profile.
>
> It is sourcing ~/.bashrc on my system, so you should try to see if there
> is something wrong with the file. If you replace it with a small file
> like "export THIS_IS_WORKING=1", does that work? Does it work when you
> start bash from in the terminal? Does the script show up when you start
> bash --verbose?

Also, IIRC, Bash is not the default shell in 6.10.  That may be a factor too.

Scott K