.bash_profile Ignored

Hello Jon,
Could you please paste or attach your .bash_profile file? Also could you paste the output of this command for me:
"sudo cat /etc/passwd | grep ^jon"

^^ NOTE: Replace "jon" with your actual username of course.

Best regards,
Jayson Vaughn

Sorry that I never did this... I must have missed the e-mail.

Anyway, I can post my .bash_profile, but remember that "source .bash_profile" works.

Anyway, here's my line in /etc/passwd:

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jon:x:1001:100:Jonathan Anderson,EN4031,(709) 737-3527,:/home/jon:/bin/sh
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Here's my .bash_profile:

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# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/login.defs
#umask 022

# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    source ~/.bashrc
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
    PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi
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And, just for good measure, /etc/profile:

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#/etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  if [ "$BASH" ]; then
    PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
    if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bash.bashrc
    fi
  else
    if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
      PS1='# '
    else
      PS1='$ '
    fi
  fi
fi

umask 002
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Hi Jon, I don't know that this is the answer to your problem, but you probably want to explicitly set your shell to be /bin/bash

Otherwise you may have any problems if you ever upgrade to a newer release.

Please let us now how that goes.

Ack! I marked my reply as "best answer"... how do I undo this? I'd like to give credit where credit's due.

Jon, I don't know whether or not you can. Don't worry about it :) I help out to help people.

In the gnome terminal do this
Edit -> Profile Preferences click on Titles and command, and check mark "Run command as login shell" then my .bash_profile was read