compatibility issue in environment-modules version 4.1.1-1

Josefsson-Ljungdahl goslju at gmail.com
Sun May 5 19:38:33 UTC 2019


 Den sön 5 maj 2019 kl 21:26 skrev Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>:

> Ubuntu does that as well, at least when GDM or LightDM is used. Maybe
> worth mentioning that the scripts in the Ubuntu versions of those DMs
> are run as bash processes. (That was changed a few years ago; previously
> they were run as dash processes.)
>

OK, that's good but since Ubuntu does have /bin/sh pointing to /bin/dash
and the initialisation procedure sources scripts with #!/bin/sh it doesn't
go all the way in this case.

/Gösta

Den sön 5 maj 2019 kl 21:26 skrev Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>:

> On 2019-05-04 15:49, Josefsson-Ljungdahl wrote:
> > I do not know if Ubuntu sources /etc/profile during graphical login but
> > Mint does.
>
> Ubuntu does that as well, at least when GDM or LightDM is used. Maybe
> worth mentioning that the scripts in the Ubuntu versions of those DMs
> are run as bash processes. (That was changed a few years ago; previously
> they were run as dash processes.)
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj
>
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