On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:55, Chris Geldenhuis wrote: > [snip] > However when I then log in to the recovered system as a user via > ssh, or directly on a tty (non-gui), the login process does not > execute the instructions in the user's .bashrc file and I get a > shell prompt with none of the required environmental variables set > - also the last line in the .bashrc is an exec of a script that > bring up the application - this does not happen. > > When I log in to the gui desktop as the user and then open a > terminal screen the instructions in the .bashrc do get executed > and the application runs as it should. > > Any ideas of where to look ? For starters, add some echo statements to the beginning of the .bashrc file to ensure that it is being executed. Maybe an error is occurring when it is a login shell. I usually debug startup problems like this by putting an exit call half way through the .bashrc file and add some echo statements. Alfred