PATH has /bin before /usr/bin in upgraded rawhide

[Sandro Mani]

On 28.10.2013 15:39, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just noticed that my rawhide installation, which was originally installed
>> when F18 was rawhide in summer 2012 and upgraded since, has
>>
>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/sandro/.local/bin:/home/sandro/bin
>>
>> On a fresh rawhide installation, I get
>>
>> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/sandro/.local/bin:/home/sandro/bin
>>
>> So, the order of /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin is reversed. Who is screwing
>> up the order?
>> - /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile.d/* are identical between the
>> "old" and the "new" installations
>> - strings /bin/bash | grep /bin gives me the same output in both cases
>> - my .bashrc and .bash_profile are harmless (i.e.
>> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin)
> Since it's not coming from /etc/profile or our .bashrc, I wonder if
> it's coming from our desktop environment setup or something.
>
> Let's check locally, then ssh into the same system and see if it's the same.
>
> [tc at zathras]~% echo $PATH
> /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/tc/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin
> [tc at zathras]~% ssh localhost
> Last login: <snipped>
> [tc at zathras]~% echo $PATH
> /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/home/tc/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin
>
> Nope, notice that locally /bin is in $PATH, but when I ssh into the
> same system, it isn't.  Where's it coming from?
>
> % grep PATH /usr/bin/startkde
> # in case we have been started with full pathname spec without being in PATH
>    case $PATH in
>      *) PATH=$bindir:$PATH; export PATH;
>
> % grep bindir /usr/bin/startkde
> bindir=`echo "$0" | sed -n 's,^\(/.*\)/[^/][^/]*$,\1,p'`
> if [ -n "$bindir" ]; then
>    qbindir=`$bindir/kde4-config --qt-binaries`
>    qdbus=$qbindir/qdbus
>      $bindir|$bindir:*|*:$bindir|*:$bindir:*) ;;
>      *) PATH=$bindir:$PATH; export PATH;;
>
> Hmm, that looks like it might be it.  So I added an `echo $bindir >
> /tmp/bindir` to that script to see if it's not just a red herring.
>
> % cat /tmp/bindir
> /bin
>
> Yup, that's it.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023999
>
> Might want to check your desktop environment's start script too, if
> it's different.
>
> -T.C.
Aha, that's interesting! Indeed my "oldrawhide" box is running kde and 
my "newrawhide" box is running gnome. Thanks for the bugreport!

Sandro