KDE refuses to start, part 2

[Brian Medley]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:32:06AM -0500, Ken Gosier wrote:

> So in the end, the decision was that some file in my home dir was causing
> the problem. I had made some changes to my .bashrc lately. (I hadn't
> mentioned this b/c the changes I made were pretty simple. duh. :-( ) But
> after renaming to .bashrc.old, voila, kde starts again! So after
> investigating the .bashrc file, it turns out the offending line was
> (drumroll please...)
> 
> set -o noclobber
> 
> I'm a little worried that this now confirms my status as a Redhat luser.
> :-/ But seriously, this seems strange to me that a simple thing like this
> will cause kde so many problems. Am I just complaining, or should kde be
> able to deal more gracefully with something like this?

I would expect it to handle that situation, perhaps you should report it as
a bug.  In the meantime, does this work:

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    set -o noclobber
fi

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