Bug 177130

Summary:	PATH is not transmitted through startkde
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sammy <umar>
Component:	kdebase	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Sammy 2006-01-06 15:55:43 UTC

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Description of problem:
I noticed that some applications that I start from the KDE desktop don't have
the full system PATH defined to them. For example, I have graphical editors
that have a window for executing shell commands. If you start the application
from the konsole it has the full PATH.

I put an echo $PATH into startkde and got this:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games

Whereas my path (say in konsole, coming from bash) is:

/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:/usr/local/bin:/etc:/usr/ifc/bin

If I put this PATH into startkde and export it everyhting works fine. Perhaps
we need to source something in startkde.
Thanks

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.5.0-1.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start an application from the desktop that can execute shell commands (not konsole)
2. 
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Sammy 2006-01-09 17:08:49 UTC

This seems to be related to the new bash. startkde is not considered a login
shell and therefor initilization files are not sourced. The following change
fixes the problem:

#!/bin/sh ------> #!/bin/bash -l

Comment 2 Sammy 2006-01-10 15:24:18 UTC

Please see:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177258

Something has changed in the kde/kdm startup to cause this but I could
not find it.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-01-13 22:40:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177258 ***

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2006-01-17 09:51:10 UTC

Please try with bash-3.1-5.