Hi Johannes, My own feeling is that Ubuntu doesn't distinguish as strictly between bin and sbin as you would like to see. This is the standard $PATH in the default /etc/environment:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games" Possibly it can be justified by the fact that the root user is not enabled by default in a fresh Ubuntu install, but you are encouraged to use sudo when needed. After all, running stuff in sbin as a normal user don't typically do much harm, right? Anyway, I think that some experienced developer should better comment on your objection. The easiest ways to fix it for yourself are to either not dropping /sbin from $PATH in ~/.bashrc or prevent ~/.profile from sourcing ~/.bashrc. -- 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
