Skip Navigation
Debian operating system @lemmy.ml WasPentalive @lemmy.one

Sudden strangeness in PATH

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 : ^ (

11
11 comments

  • P. S. It seems my path is also missing my normal ~/bin (Where I keep a backup script)

  • You're going to have to remember what did you change. Is this bookworm? Things don't just change themselves in Stable

    • rhudson@adam:~$ neofetch ,met$$$$$gg. rhudson@adam ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P. ------------ ,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64 ,$$P' $$$. Host: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop S5402ZA_S5402ZA 1.0 ',$$P ,ggs. $$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-13-amd64 d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 59 mins $$P d$' , $$P Packages: 3393 (dpkg) $$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.15 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 2880x1800 Y$$. ."Y$$$$P"' DE: Plasma 5.27.5 $$b "-._ WM: kwin Y$$ WM Theme: plastik Y$$. Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] $$b. Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] Y$$b. Terminal: konsole "Y$b._ Terminal Font: IBM 3270 19 """ CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700H (20) @ 4.600GHz GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P Memory: 3687MiB / 11577MiB This is bookworm.

      I have only worked with .txt files and .odt (libre Office files) for the past few days. I have done updates as offered, but I have not installed anything, and I have not edited any system file as far as I can remember (before this morning, see below for a troubleshooting step taken).

      And I have played Minecraft and watched Youtube and Freetube.

      When I noticed this happening (by trying to launch kpat this morning) I went to look at /etc/profile and added /etc/games to the id=0 part of the path setting and that did not help any so I removed it again. - something is setting the path to SU's path along the way but I don't know what.

  • 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

    • 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

      • 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'

  • Here is the problem.

    I had been running X before last night. I switched to Wayland just before knocking off. When I started again today I was now running Wayland. I just now switched back to X and now my icon for kpat works properly.

    Is there some issue with the Icons-Only Task Manager under Wayland?

    I was going back to Wayland because it seems important Distros are dropping X. I should be running under Wayland because at some point I will have to. I am back on X for now.

You've viewed 11 comments.