Description Karl Mikaelsson 2016-09-27 18:05:27 CEST

Our terminal profile ships with support for multiple terminals - the testcmd checks for one of xterm and rxvt. Perhaps this hasn't been tested for very long, maybe it's fallout from bug 5099 - this is what happens on my Fedora 24 machine (bash 4.3.42):

> Executing profile: xterm
> Executing profile command: exec rxvt || exec xterm
> /bin/bash: rad 0: exec: rxvt: finns inte
> Profile command exited with exit code 127

(An observant reader will notice that I switched the order around to provoke the bug - I had xterm already installed. The default is "exec xterm || exec rxvt" and fails in the same way when you don't have xterm.)

In other words, the profile command only works with the first terminal exec'd.

To allow exec in non-interactive shells to fail gracefully, you have to "shopt -s execfail" first. The default is unset.

>  execfail
>   If set, a non-interactive shell will not exit if it cannot
>   execute the file specified as an argument to the exec builtin
>   command.  An interactive shell does not exit if exec fails.