The patch in #9 doesn't fix it completely for me, as also some of the scripts in /usr/share/upstart/sessions/* assume that /sbin is in $PATH. Some of them call initctl which resides in /sbin
Unfortunately this means that a lot of packages would need to be fixed. A grep->loop->dpkg -S->awk->sort->uniq command gave on my machine the following list of affected packages. avahi-daemon cgmanager dbus gnome-keyring gnupg-agent indicator-application kde-workspace-bin logrotate openssh-client rsync upstart-bin Sorry for being that late about this. I only had time now to test and debug it. In my opinion it's upstart's fault to put executables that are needed by non-root users into (/usr)?/sbin. That is against what I learned back in the 1990 when I started using UNIX / Linux. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to upstart in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1435492 Title: Xsession.d script assumes that /sbin is in $PATH Status in upstart package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: According to changelog.Debian from version 1.12.3 on lightdm is using "bash for the session to improve error handling" to fix #678421. Unfortunately this can break the session start up when the user sets the $PATH environment variable in ~/.bashrc. Then /sbin might no longer be in $PATH and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99cadence-session-start won't find /sbin/upstart when calling "upstart --user" The mechanism is the following: 1. /usr/sbin/lightdm-session lines 37-42 source among others ~/.profile 2. The usual .profile of /etc/skel will source ~/.bashrc if the shell is Bash (and not /bin/sh) 3. ~/.bashrc (maybe) is setting $PATH without /sbin 4. upstart --user call fails as /sbin is not in $PATH Suggested solutions: * switch back to /bin/sh * make sure that /sbin is in $PATH To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1435492/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp