I suppose this issue my be related to my question 159345 (it is about Natty). The cause of skipping .pam_environment some environment variables may be in spaces within variable values. Looks like conffile parser interprets quotes differently. Variables with quoted values because of spaces got skipped with parse error.
You may check this with the following test. Please be careful. If pam configuration is broken, you may be not able to login. In ~/.pam_environment add: MYVAR0="SOME_VALUE" MYVAR1="SOME VALUE" In file /etc/pam.d/login find a line with pam_env.so and add there option debug like follows: session required pam_env.so debug readenv=1 Then login open a new console session and check results. In the session: $ env | grep MYVAR MYVAR0="SOME_VALUE" only MYVAR0 is defined, but MYVAR1 is skipped. Also in /var/log/auth.log you can see something like that: May 31 11:02:39 host login[26761]: pam_env(login:session): Unrecognized Option: VALUE"#012 - ignoring line -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584249 Title: pam_env does not evaluate ~/.pam_environment -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
