75source-profile wipes $PATH on startx

[Øyvind Hvidsten]

In Raspbian, there's a file called /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75source-profile, which contains:
[ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
[ -f "/home/root/.profile" ] && . "/home/root/profile"

This file is nonsensical. "Nobody" has a /home/root, and /etc/profile will wipe your $PATH
It should AT LEAST source $HOME/.profile, but ideally this file shouldn't need to exist.

[Nick Pollock (penrose94)]

I don't know if it's a bug, but it's certainly a nuisance.

What's the recommended workaround? At the moment I just execute a script which restores ~/bin to the path every time I startx. Irritating.

[Øyvind Hvidsten (bolt-e)]

I simply removed the file. It doesn't seem to break anything, at least with my setup.
However, I have to remember to do so on each Pi I install, and lately there's been quite a few of them around the office.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

From which package does /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75source-profile come from?
You can find that out by running `dpkg -S /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75source-profile`

[Øyvind Hvidsten (bolt-e)]

This was fixed years ago, probably by another bug report. Recent Raspbian editions do not have this problem.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

Ok, thanks for reporting back :)