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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When debugging this with cjwatson he was curious about the following:

bdmurray  2592  0.0  0.0 267436  3216 ?        Ssl  Sep06   0:00 gnome-
session --session=ubuntu GNOME_KEYRING_PID=2546 USER=bdmurray
COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE=ubuntu HOME=/home/bdmurray
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=b2b609e7925d3336a84af60045ddb693-1315329020.333531-1093409211
DESKTOP_SESSION=ubuntu GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module:canberra-gtk-
module UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=libappmenu.so GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp
/keyring-y9M5fi MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/ubuntu.mandatory.path
LOGNAME=bdmurray DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/ubuntu.default.path
USERNAME=bdmurray WINDOWPATH=7 QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=raster GDM_LANG=
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games DISPLAY=:0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-bdmurray-R9vBO8/database SHELL=/bin/zsh
GDMSESSION=ubuntu IPVIEWER=3.0.0.20 PWD=/home/bdmurray
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
IPVIEWER_PATH=/usr/lib/IPViewer SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-
BpnUKrWn2592/agent.2592 SSH_AGENT_PID=2656
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-
NSnEpcPBnn,guid=087d93f81c7028b9d0eadd1400000072

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844103

Title:
  /sbin not in $PATH

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I login in via gdm /sbin is not in my $PATH.

  10:07:37 - flash:[~] echo $PATH
  /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/bdmurray/bin/:/home/bdmurray/bin/

  However, if I ssh to my system it is set:

  10:13:38 - flash:[~] ssh localhost
  bdmurray@localhost's password: 
  bdmurray@flash:[~] echo $PATH
  /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/home/bdmurray/bin/

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gdm 3.0.4-0ubuntu9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488
  CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
  Date: Wed Sep  7 10:06:24 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: gdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-06 (1 days ago)

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