Comment 4 for bug 235040

I am the original reporter of Bug #48876. It has been fixed and now it's there again. I guess it is caused by sloppy shell scripting in xinit and the such.

Check the following comment in Bug #48876
> Matthew Wang wrote on 2006-08-05: (permalink)
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I encountered this problem in 6.06 today. If you have set 'ls' as an alias with argument '--color' in /etc/profile or $HOME/profile, it will be triggered.

The root cause is that, the script /etc/gdm/Xsession will source /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile, then it use "ls $1" to read /etc/X11/Xsession.d, the ANSI color control characters in its output will cause the problem.

Here's the fix: modify /etc/gdm/Xsession, change line 82
    for F in $(ls $1); do
to
   for F in $(/bin/ls $1); do
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