From 2adfc5b3843c6f2eb01c64de99f84021141db8ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eduardo Figueroa Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 15:53:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Create bashrcoops.md --- content/docs/posts/bashrcoops.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/docs/posts/bashrcoops.md diff --git a/content/docs/posts/bashrcoops.md b/content/docs/posts/bashrcoops.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5303322 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/docs/posts/bashrcoops.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: "Locking yourself out of SDDM with .bashrc" +date: "2026-03-01" +tags: + - linux + - rice +categories: + - linux + - til +--- +# Transferring + +I'm going to [SCaLEx23](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x). I don't tend to use my laptop as a primary device so I was transferring *everything*. + +I literally can't live without my aliases and shortcuts so in my rush I somehow moved a copy of my `.bashrc` into `~/.bashrc.d`. Which doesn't sound like a big deal except I have this in my main file. + + ```bash + if [ -d ~/.bashrc.d ]; then + for rc in ~/.bashrc.d/*.sh; do + if [ -f "$rc" ]; then + . "$rc" + fi + done + fi + ``` + + Why load everything in? Because I'm lazy. + + I find out on next login that I'm stuck in a login-loop. Getting in through TTY3 check the thousands of SDDM error crashing messages in `journalctl` and remove the rogue file. + + # The Fix + +I've since moved everything to only loop over items ending in `.sh` to avoid this unwanted files being sourced. +