[ale] ubuntu install has no $PATH?

[Jim Kinney]

Thanks to all for the ideas. I'm certain my friend didn't change shells :-)
at least not deliberately.  His linux-fu is pretty much 0.
I recall something about a default shell change from bash to dash? Could
this be related?
On Jul 24, 2011 11:56 PM, "The Don Lachlan" <ale-at-ale.org@
unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:18:30PM -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> > Any ideas how during an install (that appeared to conclude correctly)
Ubuntu
>> > could have left off PATH? More importantly, ideas on how to NOT
recreate
>> > this?
>> I cannot, for the life of me, figure out any way that PATH would not
>> be set, unless the user had somehow modified it in a profile file.
>> Also, 'cd' and 'ls' should work fine even without a path, as they are
>> shell builtins (in bash at least). So is echo. Getting a "command
>> not found" type error from echo, cd, or ls, would take quite a bit of
>> special work -- like some stripped busybox shell with those commands
>> missing.
>
> It's far more likely it's not bash at all. BTW, 'ls' is not a bash
builtin.
>
> Perhaps he set his shell to dash or specifically opened a dash shell,
which
> then didn't inherit an environment and didn't have env files to read.
>
>> Can you get them to type "/bin/bash" to see if they get a better shell
>> out of that?
>
> That is my first suggestion also. Check his login shell and what he
clicked
> on, because it surely wasn't bash and that could easily foul things up.
>
> -L
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