cannot get bash-4.0.10 to run initialization scripts

[Chuck Harding]

both the original 4.0.0 version from the source repository or a newly
patched bash 4.0.10 with patches from this list *still* will not run
/etc/profile, ~/.bashrc, or ~/.bash_profile as documented in the
INVOCATION section of the man page, no matter how it is started: via
login, via exec, or via xterm. I am running on an RHEL 5.3 desktop. I
have tried changing the permissions on the initialization scripts and
that didn't work. What is the trick? I know there's gotta be one....
Thanks.

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