Bug 1645043 - PATH set in ~/.config/environment.d/ is not preserved
Summary: PATH set in ~/.config/environment.d/ is not preserved
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 29
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-01 09:58 UTC by Ivan Molodetskikh
Modified: 2020-07-04 12:50 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-11-27 19:42:46 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Ivan Molodetskikh 2018-11-01 09:58:52 UTC
Description of problem:
I set a couple of environment variables by creating ~/.config/environment.d/00.conf with the following contents:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin
RUST_SRC_PATH=$HOME/.rustup/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/src/rust/src
NVIM_GTK_DOUBLE_BUFFER=1
NVIM_GTK_NO_HEADERBAR=1
NVIM_GTK_PREFER_DARK_THEME=1
BASE16_THEME=ocean

All of these variables are set correctly on session start, except the PATH variable which always ends up having some kind of a default value /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

"systemctl --user show-environment" shows the intended PATH variable correctly: /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/home/YaLTeR/.cargo/bin

I am using GDM and running the latest git sway, although the issue also manifests with the GNOME session. Sway has a debug mode where it dumps some environment variable values on start and indeed the PATH variable is already wrong when sway starts, so it's not a sway issue.

I looked for configs and scripts that could override PATH everywhere but I did not find anything. I am assuming this is a GDM issue, but I'm not really sure what component is responsible for this behavior.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.30.1-2.fc29

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create ~/.config/environment.d/00.conf with the following contents:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/something/whatever
2. Reboot

Actual results:
The PATH variable does not contain $HOME/something/whatever

Expected results:
The PATH variable contains $HOME/something/whatever

Additional info:
I'm starting sway with the following /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sway
Comment=SirCmpwn's Wayland window manager
Exec=sway
Type=Application

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:35:27 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
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Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 19:42:46 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
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Comment 3 reto 2020-07-04 12:50:13 UTC
Seems to be a GNOME bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/385

Still present in Fedora 32 with Gnome 3.36.


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