Bug 673232

Summary:	[gdm] prepends /usr/bin to path
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	jmccann, rstrode, vaughn.jayson
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Description Joachim Frieben 2011-01-27 19:03:43 UTC

Description of problem:
For current "rawhide", GDM prepends /usr/bin to the path which is wrong. The default user path in a virtual console reads

  /usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin .

However, in a desktop session started via GDM, the path becomes

  /usr/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin .

Accordingly, 'which cc' returns /usr/lib64/ccache/cc when run in a virtual console and /usr/bin/cc when run in a desktop shell which is neither intended nor consistent. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.91.4-5.fc15

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute 'which cc' in a virtual console.
2. Execute 'which cc' in a desktop shell.
  
Actual results:
In the first case, 'which cc' returns /usr/lib64/ccache/cc, in the second case, it returns /usr/bin/cc.

Expected results:
In both cases, 'which cc' returns /usr/lib64/ccache/cc.

Additional info:
- Issue appeared during the GNOME3 development cycle. Fedora 14 features
  gdm-2.32.0-1.fc14 which behaves correctly.
- GDM prepends /usr/bin to the search path in two different places:
  * /etc/gdm/Init/Default: PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH"
  * /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH"

Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2011-02-01 09:17:34 UTC

Issuse doe not apply to F14 even though gdm-2.32.0-1.fc14 exhibits similar initialization scripts including path modification:
* /etc/gdm/Init/Default:PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH" ,
* /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default .
Thus, component gdm might be the wrong component.

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Comment 10 Jayson Vaughn 2011-07-04 22:50:18 UTC

Thank you for filing the bug report.

However, I want to make sure I understand the issue correctly.  I'm not certain that this is necessarily a bug.  Prepending /usr/bin to PATH is needed to to ensure the user can start his session properly.  Are you requesting to have it set as PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin instead of PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH ?

Also, just curious; If you update to gdm to the latest version through yum (yum update gdm) do you still have the same issue?

Thanks.



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Comment 11 Joachim Frieben 2011-07-10 14:25:49 UTC

Issue seems to have disappeared for current F15 (tested with an updated F15 live CD).