From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: After upgrading a 7.2 install, the previously defined environment variables in /etc/profile no longer are loaded into the environment. I can even manually execute the script after changing the permissions to execute and the parameters still do not load. I have to cat the file to the monitor and copy and paste the export statements to the command line for them to work. If copy only the relevant portions of /etc/profile into a separate file, the same issue remains. The first time I started up skipjack, I logged in as root, noticed that the variables were not loaded, logged out, logged in as a non-root account, still did not see the variables, logged out, and logged in as root and suddenly saw the variables loaded. I have not been able to repeat this sequence since. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login and look for environment variables in /etc/profile 2. Variables are not setup 3. Actual Results: No changes defined in /etc/profile or moved to a different script are loaded into the environment. Expected Results: Environment variables exported in /etc/profile should be loaded during login process. Additional info:
How are you logging in?
KDE
The problem occurs with KDE but not when I bypass X (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and login directly to the machine.
This item appears to be corrected with the updates available via up2date on 3/29/02.
Yes, this was caused by bad kdm settings.