[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#1011088: zsh: wrong $PATH for regular user under GNOME/Wayland

[Jan Dittberner]

Package: zsh
Version: 5.8.1-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

in a fresh Bookworm installation with GNOME I installed zsh and set users'
shell to /usr/bin/zsh using chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh $USER. Logout/login (via GDM)
select option 2 (copy default .zsh setup).

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
  ineffective)?

I observed the effect on an upgraded Buster installation first. I did a fresh
testing installation in a KVM/QEMU VM and observed the same issue.

The problem does not occur in a GNOME/Xorg session, so it seems to be a
combination of GNOME/Wayland and zsh that triggers the issue.

I tested with a bash login shell which had $PATH set correctly.

* What was the outcome of this action?

% echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

* What outcome did you expect instead?

same behavior as with a bash login shell (or zsh in a GNOME/Xorg session):

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

-- Package-specific info:

Packages which provide vendor completions:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version      Architecture Description
+++-================-============-============-==========================================================
ii  bubblewrap       0.6.1-1      amd64        utility for unprivileged chroot and namespace manipulation
ii  pulseaudio-utils 15.0+dfsg1-4 amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
ii  systemd          250.4-1      amd64        system and service manager
ii  udev             250.4-1      amd64        /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/share/zsh/vendor-functions/


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii  libc6       2.33-7
ii  libcap2     1:2.44-1
ii  libtinfo6   6.3+20220423-2
ii  zsh-common  5.8.1-1

Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii  libgdbm6      1.23-1
ii  libncursesw6  6.3+20220423-2
ii  libpcre3      2:8.39-14

Versions of packages zsh suggests:
pn  zsh-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information