Bug 26261

Summary:	tcsh: undefined variable VTE_VERSION at startup prior to executing .cshrc
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ralf Brown <ralfbrown>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	GNOME maintainers <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	geiger.david68210, olav
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	vte3-profile-0.59.91-2.mga8	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ralf Brown 2020-02-26 18:33:09 CET

Description of problem:
After system update, every invocation of tcsh prints error message "VTE_VERSION: Undefined variable." and then fails to execute ~/.cshrc.  I've traced the problem to /etc/profile.d/vte.csh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.59.91-2.mga8

How reproducible:
Run tcsh in a terminal window or from a commandline login.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. tcsh
2. observe the error message and lack of effects from user .cshrc

Fix: add a test for the existence of $VTE_VERSION to /etc/profile.d/vte.csh
Note that I tried adding the test in the existing 'if' statement, but that still left the error, so I had to split it into two.

--- /etc/profile.d/vte.csh~     2020-02-26 12:06:39.904818401 -0500
+++ /etc/profile.d/vte.csh      2020-02-26 12:07:38.970079983 -0500
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
 # exit if non-interactive, csh, no terminal or old VTE versions
-if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | 0$VTE_VERSION < 3405) exit
+if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | ! $?VTE_VERSION ) exit
+if ( 0$VTE_VERSION < 3405) exit

Comment 1 David GEIGER 2020-02-26 18:57:05 CET

This should be reported upstream at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Assignee: bugsquad => gnome

Comment 2 Olav Vitters 2020-04-10 20:01:24 CEST

Seems this was fixed at some time, guessing by upstream.

CC: (none) => olav
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED