rvm 1.10.3 with multi-user installation failed GUI on Fedora 16

[dytsai]

My system is Fedora 16 running on VMWare workstation in Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. I have tried it many times. Once I install rvm 1.10.3 with multi-user installations, the next time I reboot the server, the booting process hangs with error below:

failed to start Display Manager
See 'systemctl status prefdm.service' for details

The message from systemctl status prefdm.service:
prefdm.service - Display Manager
Load: (/lib/systemd/system/prefdm.service:static)
Active: failed since Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:47:46 -0500: 1min 52s ago
Process:1242 ExecStart=/etc/X11/prefdm.service -nodaemon (code=exited, status=2)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/prefdm.service

At this point, I could still ssh into the server and everything else seems fine. I just couldn't start X. After removing rvm, everything went back to normal.

Then I tried 1.10.3 with single-user installation and it's ok. I also tried 1.10.2 with multi-user installation and it doesn't have the same issue.

[mpapis]

could you do a test and after installation in multiuser mode move /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh to /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh.old - then reboot the server

this should just work as rvm was removed from start.

next open terminal and run source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh.old in those two sessions:

• bash -l - or zsh -l depending which one is available
• sh -l

and gist the outputs of both

[dytsai]

@mpapis Before I saw your reply, I tried on another machine and the same thing happened.

Then I move rvm.sh, reboot and everything back to normal.

bash -l
output nothing

sh -l
sh: /home/dytsai/.rvm/scripts/functions/env: line 121: syntax error near unexpected token <' sh: /home/dytsai/.rvm/scripts/functions/env: line 121: done < <(printenv_null)'

[mpapis]

could you gist your /etc/profile ? (edit: from the box that gets broken)

[dytsai]

https://gist.github.com/2048079

[mamciek]

It should help: #836

[dytsai]

Thanks for the quick fix.

[bobgus]

This bug also created some agony over the last few months:

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805254
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803574
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805507

[mpapis]

I think the biggest issue is that Fedoras GDM sources /etc/profile - according to man bash this file is for login shells and it's hard to call the X Manager an login shell, it's not even known if user will login at this point.