When opening a terminal in gnome in Fedora Core 5, the .bashrc and .bash_profile in my home directory are not executed. Has anyone seen this problem and does anyone know a solution.

This is a fresh FC5 installation with all updates installed.

Thanks.

Did you just make changes? If so, I believe you need to log out and log back in again or type source .bashrc && source .bash_profile to make them active. Other than the first time after changes, it should be right every time you login.

Yes I have sourced this and logged in and out etc. This I think is a bug. I am in contact with one other person with this same problem on FC5.

Some things to check when you have time...

Does the terminal you're starting bash in use the --noprofile switch? This will cause the /etc/profile ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile files to be ignored.

It may be that bash isn't being invoked as a login shell. When bash is invoked as a login shell, it reads the /etc/profile file if it exists. It then looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. From memory the login shell also looks for ~/.bashrc. Interactive shells that are not login shells look for ~/.bashrc but do not look for the other files.

Lastly, is your shell value in /etc/passwd set to /bin/bash rather than /bin/sh? If it is set to /bin/sh, it first attempts to read and execute commands from /etc/profile and ~/.profile, in that order. It doesn't check for the bash versions of the files.

Most of that was copy/pasted from man bash - hope it's useful...

Are you sure you are actually using bash?

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This is almost exactly like another thread here today.

Look in /etc/passwd for your user entry. See what shell is specified. Change it to /bin/bash if that is what you want.

--- rod.

OK Great! Found the problem. Using gnome-terminal and it is using bash. The current profile was not set as a login shell. In the gnome-terminal menu EDIT - Current Profile - Title and Command, click the box next to under "Run command as a login shell".

Npw it worls fine. Thamks very much folks.

Best Regards.