[Bug 864109] Re: In Oneiric beta2, env variable $LOGNAME is blank/null

[Chris]

I believe this is related to core-utils, as per the man page on #LOGNAME

** Package changed: bash (Ubuntu) => coreutils

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Title:
  In Oneiric beta2, env variable $LOGNAME is blank/null

Status in The Gnu Core Utilities:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a new install done this morning, and fully updated twice
  today.  The problem came to my attention when a backup script failed,
  which was traced to the fact that $LOGNAME  variable was null.

  I understand that the $LOGNAME variable "should not be relied on as it
  can be changed"  however I'm sure a great number of backup scripts
  have used it over years since it was introduced in UNIX III.  No
  previous Ubuntu releases have had a problem as far as I'm aware.

  I originally asked a question on Launchpad as I wasn't sure if this was a bug:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+question/172882
  however the respondent~andrew-woodhead666 demonstrated that his $LOGNAME variable was _not_ blank, even though the two systems should be equivalent.

  As a final test update manager was run and the system was rebooted,
  and it was verified that $LOGNAME was still null.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: bash 4.2-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Oct  2 00:16:19 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
  SourcePackage: bash
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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