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 : ^ (

  • I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

    • waspentalive
      1·
      1 year ago

      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

      • waspentalive
        1·
        1 year ago

        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’

        • I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • waspentalive
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • waspentalive
              1·
              1 year 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.

              • waspentalive
                1·
                1 year ago

                Is there some difference in Wayland that would prevent bash from running the same startup as bash under X? Why would bash not run .bashrc if running under Wayland?