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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I agree.

** Package changed: lightdm (Ubuntu) => upstart (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- Xsession crash after login (fix for #678421 breaks)
+ Xsession.d script assumes that /sbin is in $PATH

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1435492

Title:
  Xsession.d script assumes that /sbin is in $PATH

Status in upstart package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  According to changelog.Debian from version 1.12.3 on lightdm is using
  "bash for the session to improve error handling" to fix #678421.

  Unfortunately this can break the session start up when the user sets
  the $PATH environment variable in ~/.bashrc. Then /sbin might no
  longer be in $PATH and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99cadence-session-start
  won't find /sbin/upstart when calling "upstart --user"

  The mechanism is the following:

  1. /usr/sbin/lightdm-session lines 37-42 source among others
  ~/.profile

  2. The usual .profile of /etc/skel will source ~/.bashrc if the shell
  is Bash (and not /bin/sh)

  3. ~/.bashrc (maybe) is setting $PATH without /sbin

  4. upstart --user call fails as /sbin is not in $PATH

  Suggested solutions:

  * switch back to /bin/sh

  * make sure that /sbin is in $PATH

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