Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 18 October 2008 10:41:23 Steve Jones wrote:
>>>> The weird thing is, ld is where it always was, and is also on e17's
>>>> path, yet it's still upset about something. Again, logging in to a text
>>>> console or ssh is fine.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone got any clues as to what may have happened here?
>>> This is a shell problem and unlikely to be related to e17 in any way.
>>>
>>> Check your various shell start-up files for where PATH is set and amend
>>> accordingly. See your distro's documentation for details (they can and do
>>> vary wildly)
>> That's what I thought too, but I haven't found anything yet. Also, the
>> build system problem makes no sense - everything required is on the
>> path, and yet it still doesn't work.
>>
>> If it's a shell issue, why did it change when e17 was updated? Nothing
>> else has changed on my system, and it's not an X startup issue per se -
>> everything is fine if I start X with a different window manager. This is
>> why I'm confused about it.
>
> Thus far you have not supplied much in the way of facts, so a proper answer
> is
> not possible.
>
> What is your PATH when e17 is running?
> How do you start e17 (*dm, entrance, startx)?
> If you use a dm, do you select an entry for enlightenment, or default or
> failsafe?
> There will be a script that starts e17 - maybe a .desktop or an Xsession
> file - what's in it? If you use startx, what's in your .xinitrc?
>
> I'm thinking the most logical cause is something along the lines of you have
> a
> sane shell startup environment (because ssh works fine), and your .desktop
> got replaced with a b0rked one with statements like these in it:
>
> unset PATH
> PATH=$PATH
>
>
>
Thanks for the pointers - I'm now starting to see where I should be looking.
I'm starting X via entrance. As you say, entrance uses a .desktop file
to start enlightenment - contents below:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=E17
Comment=This session logs you into Enlightenment E17
Exec=/usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=enlightenment-e17
I can use the exact same desktop file from either entrance or gdm. If I
log in via gdm, my environment is fine. From entrance, it's broken. I've
found that gdm has its own path settings in gdm.conf, which matches the
path I get through ssh. I haven't found the equivalent for entrance -
any idea where it might be, or is there somewhere else that my path
should be set up?
Thanks again,
Steve.
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