schroot fails to setup basic environment variables

Bug #675466 reported by James Page
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: schroot

After upgrading from lucid->maverick, schroot environments are practically unusable; it appears that basic environment variables are not being set including HOME, LOGNAME, TERM and SHELL.

Setting this variables manually works round this issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: schroot 1.4.7-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 15 10:11:20 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: schroot

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James Page (james-page) wrote :
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James Page (james-page) wrote :

This appears to be a regression in 1.4.7-1; 1.4.8-1 has a specific fix to address this issue.

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