From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060103 Fedora/1.5-4 Firefox/1.5 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. 3. Additional info:
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
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177258 ***
Please try with bash-3.1-5.