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Sudden strangeness in PATH (lemmy.one)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have suddenly found that /usr/games has disappeared off my path. Not only that but my normal otherwise but sudo enabled user seems to have a superuser's path?

rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

rhudson@adam:~$ id -u 1000

What would have changed suddenly? It was not like this yesterday. kpat is in /usr/games and I was able to launch it from task manager yesterday, but not today.

I have rebooted twice so far. I can run kpat by opening it from Dolphin.

I don't want to have to re-install : ^ (

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Check your ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, and ~/.profile files. See if they were modified. You can add those paths (~/bin, /usr/games) to one of those files: export PATH=$PATH:~/bin:/usr/games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have included this line in my .bash_profile:

export PATH="$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"

In the very last line.

My PATH still looks like this:

rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

What could be changing my path after .bash_profile gets its say?

I am also adding it now to the last line of .bashrc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have rebooted and now my path seems correct:

rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /home/rhudson/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

I can type "kpat" at the command line and it launches.

But when I click the icon in the task manager it still says it can't find the program 'kpat'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depending on how you're starting X (assuming X and not Wayland), you could add a line to your ~/.xprofile (or .xsession or .xinitrc) with ". ~/.bashrc" to make sure the path gets set before launching X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The issue shows up under Wayland, not X. With X everything is working ok. I have yet to try a different Task Manager under Wayland though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I took a moment to swich back to wayland, and tried "Task Manager" (I was using "Icons only Task Manager") both are showing this issue which is resolved by switching back to X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So I would look into how to make sure Wayland apps inherit your ~/.bashrc settings