Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ksmserver
I have a number of scripts in ~/.kde/env folder to setup various KDE
environment variables including KDEWM.
Startkde has a shebang of /bin/sh and /bin/sh is linked by default to
dash
The following code in startkde does not work correctly under dash...
exepath=`kde-config --path exe | tr : '\n'`
for prefix in `echo "$exepath" | sed -n -e 's,/bin[^/]*/,/env/,p'`; do
for file in "$prefix"*.sh; do
test -r "$file" && . "$file"
done
done
tested using the following shell script under bash and dash...
exepath=`kde-config --path exe | tr : '\n'`
for prefix in `echo "$exepath" | sed -n -e 's,/bin[^/]*/,/env/,p'`; do
for file in "$prefix"*.sh; do
echo prefix = $prefix , file = $file
done
done
which returns the following under bash (OK): -
prefix = /home/paul/.kde/env/ , file = /home/paul/.kde/env/compiz.sh
prefix = /home/paul/.kde/env/ , file = /home/paul/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh
prefix = /usr/env/ , file = /usr/env/*.sh
and this under dash (NOTOK): -
prefix = /home/paul/.kde/env/ , file = /home/paul/.kde/env/compiz.sh
/home/paul/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh
prefix = /usr/env/ , file = /usr/env/*.sh
...hence the startkde line (test -r "$file" && . "$file") does not work
and scripts do not get executed.
WORKAROUND: link /bin/sh to bash
** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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KDE env broken in startkde because of dash?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179060
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