This is not a problem with upstart packaging. /sbin is on the default
path in ubuntu, and hence "init" binary is shipped there and is a
reasonable location for the executable, same as e.g. ifconfig. Adding
"extra" symlinks, is not, since quite a lot of things will not work.
Other binaries that are used by user session upstart jobs are also
/sbin/start /sbin/stop /sbin/reload /sbin/restart /sbin/initctl
/sbin/initctl.
If one doesn't want an upstart managed user-session, one should comment
it out from /etc/upstart-xsessions, similarly lightdm/ubuntu-greeter
should manage to start such sessions without init user-session.
** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184878
Title:
when upstart init the session jobs, it should be robust against
environment changes (fallback?)
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
A file that is commonly modified is /etc/environment.
If you remove the PATH line in this file, you can start a session
upstart-less quite easily, and things will still work.
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"
However, if upstart manage your session, you can't log in (you will be
rejected and going back to the greeter quickly). I thnk we should be
more fortified against this pebkac issue, especially has we have no
really good log for it to know what happened (nothing in lightdm or
upstart logs rather than exiting the session and gnome-session logs
were not there as it's not executed).
What happens is:
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: 5: exec: init: not found
in .xsession-errors.
indeed, which init doesn't return anything as /sbin isn't in path. We
should maybe hardcode /sbin/init in this script?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: upstart 1.8-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-2.7-generic 3.9.3
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 28 09:51:48 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-28 (364 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UpstartBugCategory: Session
UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.8)
UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.8)
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