Default PATH problem on Dapper

[Rinaldo Maldera]

Recently installed Dapper Daily Build of 2005/02/10 and found that the PATH of bash only points to /usr/bin excluding /usr/local/bin. That makes impossible to run programs compiled from source with default options without editing the bash PATH.

The "echo $PATH" shows:

/bin:/usr/bin

Rinaldo Maldera

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the report.

I'm changing the severity to 'normal' until someone can confirm this issue.

[LarryGrover (lgrover)]

I see the same bug. I'm running Dapper, fully up to date, on powerpc (iBook G4).

From within an X session (gnome-terminal):
$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin

...but if I change out to a console (ctrl-alt-F1) the path is:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

this is a missing /etc/environment, which was broken for some days in January. Should not happen on new installs and breezy upgrades.

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

This happened to me on a fresh flight4 install too:

dennis@mirage:~$ cat /etc/environment
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_NL:en_US:en_GB:en"

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed, at least with the dapper beta release