Ah, yes, the user settings, hidden away in directory services.  Another place 
easy to forget about and not user-friendly for messing with.

I'll remember this as a troubleshooting point.  I may have stuff in my own from 
ages ago ;)

On Mar 12, 2015, at 2:31 AM, Howard Frederick <simbama...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Aha, found it! 
> 
> I do have a customised .bash_profile but as you say it shouldn’t affect an 
> application … however, I did start using a custom bash (v 4.3.24 from 
> homebrew) some time ago, which necessitated changing /etc/shells (I cannot 
> remember why I thought this was worthwhile). Looking in the QGIS environment 
> variables I found:
> 
> SHELL  /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.24/bin/bash 
> 
> … instead of /bin/bash. 
> 
> GRASS runs fine now that SHELL reports /bin/bash. Fixing this was not 
> trivial, with several steps before the SHELL variable was reported correctly 
> and GRASS ran:
>       • I edited /etc/shells to remove the homebrew bash reference;
>       • ran sudo dscl . -change /Users/$USER UserShell 
> /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.3.24/bin/bash /bin/bash
> 
> Note: adding a custom environment variable in QGIS to set shell did NOT work.
> 
> Many thanks for your help on this!
> 
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