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Albert Català
Asked: 2019-11-04 13:17:45 +0800 CST

"~/.bashrc: Permission denied" when opening mate-terminal

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When I open a terminal, with my Ubuntu 18 with mate desktop is mate-terminal (probably like gnome-terminal for mate desktop) appears this message

-bash: /home/albert/.bashrc: Permission denied

and my .bashrc is not executed/loaded

I'm almost 100% sure than this file never has been executable, ant nor is now, but If I change their permisions to make it executable,then tries do exectute these first lines:

case $- in
    *i*) ;;
      *) return;;
esac

and complains in return says something that is not a function ...this code must be sourced...

Edited:

If I use UXTerm, it seems that .bashrc is exectued successfully, but something is missing, because I can not use rvm...I've lost the path Any idea how to solve this?

ls -al $(which sh)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 25  2019 /bin/sh -> dash

It seems I'm using dash (not bash), may be this the problem? how can I change to bash? if so

Thank you very much

gnome-terminal bashrc ubuntu-mate

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    During chat session we have located a typo in ~/.profile file.

    The problematic code block:

    if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
        "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

    should be changed to 

    if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
        . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

    Note the dot (.) in the "$HOME/.bashrc" line above, it means sourcing.

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