Bug#558313: Confirmation and More Data

[Barak A. Pearlmutter]

I get the same error using the same version on one machine, but not on
another.  When I dredge out the PATH environment variable from the
actual update-notifier process,

  ps aux | egrep update-notifier

  cat /proc/XXXX/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | egrep '^PATH='

The problem seems to be that PATH is set differently in the analogous
update-notifier processes on the two machines.  In one it includes
/sbin and /usr/sbin, on the other it does not.

Killing and restarting the update-notifier process manually, from a
shell with /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH, masks the problem.

Groveling as above a little more, on the "bad" machine,
x-session-manager is running, and has the without-sbin PATH.
On the other "good" machine, gnome-session-manager is running, and has
a with-sbin PATH.

					--Barak.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter
 Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
 http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/