SV: compatibility issue in environment-modules version 4.1.1-1

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2019-05-06 09:36, Gösta Ljungdahl wrote:
> On 2019-05-05 22:35, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> From a quick look at the code in environment-modules I see that it
>> seems to test for the BASH_VERSION variable. That makes me think of
>> this change of LightDM:
>> 
>> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/revision/2168/debian/lightdm-session 
>> 
>> which was made in response to:
>> 
>> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1482641
>> 
>> Can this possibly be a reason for the confusion you have observed?
> > All I really know is that at some point in the initialization process
> dash comes into play and is not equal to the task. I know this
> because the initialization works as expected if I change /bin/sh to
> point to /bin/bash.

Right. But it could be useful to know what happens if you

1. Change the /bin/sh symlink back to point to dash, and

2. (assuming that MINT uses LightDM) edit /usr/sbin/lightdm-session and
    change the line

     BASH_VERSION= . "$CONFIG_FILE" 2>"$ERR"

    to

     . "$CONFIG_FILE" 2>"$ERR"

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj