As a work-around for anyone else affected, I found that adding the
following code to /etc/profile after the initial comments fixed it. I
got this from the askubuntu article but had to add an addition /sbin to
the user (non-root) path (else clause).
if [ "`/usr/bin/id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
PATH="/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263736
Title:
lightdm-session fails to login after update
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Similar to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/962270 but
exact errors differ, and I have no user customized ~/.bash* files so
that is not the problem. (/etc/profile and ~/.profile are original as
well)
Cannot login graphical shell Unity as primary user. Can login as
Guest.
.xsession looks like this:
/usr/bin/lightdm-session: 1: /etc/profile: id: not found
/usr/bin/lightdm-session: 12: [: Illegal number:
/usr/bin/lightdm-session: 1: /usr/sbin/lighdm-session: ls: not found
/usr/bin/lightdm-session: 104: exec: ghome-session: not found
As sudo I edited lightdm-session and put in some full paths; it only
results in more downstream path errors. I could pound through all of
them I suppose, but someone needs to triage this. askubuntu has an
article on this bug, it suggests checking id and adding a path at the
top of /etc/profile will fix it. However this distro still needs a
fix.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/336619/not-able-to-login-through-gui-
in-ubuntu-12-04
Since this is a box-stock 13.10 install and blew out after an update,
I am filing this as a bug.
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