Bug#794419: sddm doesn't source /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile
Package: sddm
Version: 0.11.0-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
After upgrading Debian testing to KDE Plasma 5, things which rely on
/etc/profile being sourced became broken because sddm doesn't source it unlike
kdm did (it also doesn't source $HOME/.profile unlike kdm, so if anything
relied on that it would be broken too).
For example, /etc/profile adds /usr/games to the PATH, and minetest and a
number of other Debian games rely on this. With sddm + Plasma 5 their launchers
became broken in Debian.
I filed the bug upstream: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/448 and sddm
developers commented that profiles aren't supposed to be sourced by the display
manager, so there should be some other way of handling this in such case.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages sddm depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.57
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii libgcc1 1:5.1.1-14
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libqt5core5a 5.4.2+dfsg-5
ii libqt5dbus5 5.4.2+dfsg-5
ii libqt5gui5 5.4.2+dfsg-5
ii libqt5network5 5.4.2+dfsg-5
ii libqt5qml5 5.4.2-4
ii libqt5quick5 5.4.2-4
ii libstdc++6 5.1.1-14
ii libsystemd0 222-2
ii libxcb-xkb1 1.10-3+b1
ii libxcb1 1.10-3+b1
ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.4.2-4
ii sddm-theme-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.3.2-4
sddm recommends no packages.
sddm suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm
sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm
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