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[Johannes Mueller <1435492@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The patch in #9 doesn't fix it completely for me, as also some of the
scripts in /usr/share/upstart/sessions/* assume that /sbin is in $PATH.
Some of them call initctl which resides in /sbin

Unfortunately this means that a lot of packages would need to be fixed.

A grep->loop->dpkg -S->awk->sort->uniq command gave on my machine the
following list of affected packages.

avahi-daemon
cgmanager
dbus
gnome-keyring
gnupg-agent
indicator-application
kde-workspace-bin
logrotate
openssh-client
rsync
upstart-bin

Sorry for being that late about this. I only had time now to test and
debug it.

In my opinion it's upstart's fault to put executables that are needed by
non-root users into (/usr)?/sbin. That is against what I learned back in
the 1990 when I started using UNIX / Linux.

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

Status in upstart package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

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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