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Alexander Rechsteiner
Asked: 2013-12-27 05:46:45 +0800 CST

Node.js NVM causes Xubuntu login loop with ~/.profile line

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There are various posts on the Xubuntu login loop, but none of them address NVM (Node Version Manager).

I have installed NodeJS via NVM on my Xubuntu VM and it works fine, however after rebooting, I can't log into Xfce anymore. Xubuntu is in a login loop.

The line responsible is in ~/.profile, added by NVM:

[ -s $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh ] && . $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh # This loads NVM

If I comment the line out, I can log in again.

I don't know exactly what the problem is. I suppose this line is failing somehow. How could I troubleshoot this? Are there any logs that I could look at?

If I log in through the terminal and run source ~./profile there are no errors and NVM is loaded correctly.

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1 Answers

  1. I posted your solution in NVM github, they have already a issue of this:

    https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/334

    EDITED:

    It seems that sh can't do dynamic substitution with variable, when loading profile.When execute with bash (terminal) it works.

    So u could move this to your ~/.bashrc, also you can put this: source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh to your ~/.bashrc

    I did the second and it works fine!

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