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mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Weird error when logging in [solved]

Everytime I log into a freshly installed Arch, I get this error:

-bash: $'\337\376\032\274up_write': command not found

I do get a working prompt and everything seems to work just fine. But it bothers me that apparently something isn't right and I can't figure out what it is?

Anyone knows where this error comes from?

Last edited by mariourk (2012-05-03 10:14:42)

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Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: Weird error when logging in [solved]

What do you have in your ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile?

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mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Re: Weird error when logging in [solved]

.bashrc

#
# ~/.bashrc
#

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

.bash_profile

#
# ~/.bash_profile
#

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

I doubt it's in these files, because I have this error regardless as what user I login (currently only as a regular user and root). But of cource I could be wrong.

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Atragor

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 59

Re: Weird error when logging in [solved]

Try to insert

set -x

at the beginning of /etc/profile (after the first line). This should give much more verbose information about things happening during login.

mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Re: Weird error when logging in [solved]

Apperantly the error is caused by /etc/profile.d/gpm.sh

+ for profile in '/etc/profile.d/*.sh'
+ test -r /etc/profile.d/gpm.sh
+ . /etc/profile.d/gpm.sh
++ $'\337\376\032\274up_write'
-bash: $'\337\376\032\274up_write': command not found

/etc/profile.d/gpm.sh seems to contain some sort of binairy code?

^Zup_write^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@୵adown_write^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@

What is the function of /etc/profile.d/gpm.sh? Can I just delete it?

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mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Re: Weird error when logging in [solved]

Reinstalling gpm made the error disappear. Also, /etc/profile.d/gpm.sh now shows something sane

case $( /usr/bin/tty ) in
    /dev/tty[0-9]*) [ -n "$(pgrep gpm)" ] && /usr/bin/disable-paste ;;
esac

I have no idea what went wrong here, but it seems to fixed.

Thanks!

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