Bug 6965

Summary:	gdm duplicates path on login
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Nadeem <nadeem.riaz>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	mkp
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Description Nadeem 1999-11-13 00:41:32 UTC

Hi,

gdm appears to duplicate the path when a user logs in, e.g.

PATH=$PATH:$PATH

I've tested this with several windowmanagers executed from gdm, and all
seem to display the problem.  Starting X and said windowmanagers from the
command line with xinit doesn't display the problem, thus I think it exists
somehwere in gdm. grep through GDM's config tree, I couldn't find anything
that would seem to duplicate the path, so I'm guessing its something in the
code.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 1999-11-17 22:04:59 UTC

Can't reproduce here. The PATH does seem to get a couple of duplicate entries,
but the whole path is definitely not doubled, and the duplication is merely a
cosmetic defect. This may just be the system-wide or user profile doing its
usual.