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and subject line closing old gnome-session bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #882662,
regarding gnome-session: something is resetting $PATH after .gnomerc runs,
making it impossible to set a custom $PATH in .gnomerc
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Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.26.1-1
Severity: important
In my .gnomerc, I set a custom $PATH:
PATH=blah:$PATH
I also set some other variables:
export GNOMERC_WAS_EXECUTED=yeah
Until recently, this worked fine: the given $PATH was set for everything inside
my session. Since my last upgrade, though, after logging in I find that my
$PATH is set to the system default:
~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
However, I can see that .gnomerc is still being executed, because other
variables are set:
~$ echo $GNOMERC_WAS_EXECUTED
yeah
Looking at /var/log/apt/history.log, it looks like I upgraded on 2017-11-15,
and everything was fine after that, and then I upgraded again on 2017-11-24,
and that's when things broke. So whatever the problem is, it must be in some
package that landed in testing between 2017-11-15 and 2017-11-24.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii gnome-session-bin 3.26.1-1
ii gnome-session-common 3.26.1-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.26.2-1
ii gnome-shell 3.26.2-1
gnome-session recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii desktop-base 9.0.5
ii gnome-keyring 3.20.1-1
ii gnome-user-guide 3.26.2-1
-- no debconf information
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There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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