After the last emerge (2015-06-13 in the early morning), I noticed that my Compose key no longer worked as usual. I have a custom /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file. When researching, it turned out the an update to kdelibs had unconditionally overridden all /etc/env files — which is NOT as it should be (Problem #1). After that, I re-added GTK_IM_MODULE=xim QT_IM_MODULE=xim to my /etc/env.d/77kde When restarting however, the behaviour did not change: KDE applications like konsole or kwrite always respected /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose, but GTK and QT applications use a different input module (one of the darker sides, if not the darkest at all, of Open Source software), which could however be reset to the X input method by setting the above environment variables. When checking the Envvars by firing up a konsole, sudoing bash and entering "set", I normally found these env variables. No longer however (Problem #2). As I researched deeper, I found out that the envvars of other /etc/env files like /etc/env.d/99editor are no longer respected either (the latter one sets the EDITOR and VISUAL variables, which are now undefined in the konsole "set". Some of the settings (like LANG) are still set correctly when listing the environment variables, but this is no couterproof, as they could have been set already before X starts. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add an environment variable to any of the /etc/env/* files 2. Reboot your system 3. Open konsole and become root 4. Enter "set" and \n Actual Results: The varible is not listed Expected Results: The variable should be listed among the environment variables This is a very nasty bug, because setting the environment variables in other places recommended by tech support sites (such as ~/.xinitrc) never worked either in gentoo.
# cat /etc/env.d/77kde COLON_SEPARATED=QT_PLUGIN_PATH QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins GTK_IM_MODULE=xim QT_IM_MODULE=xim # set BASH=/bin/bash BASHOPTS=checkwinsize:cmdhist:complete_fullquote:expand_aliases:extquote:force_fignore:histappend:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:no_empty_cmd_completion:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath BASH_ALIASES=() BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_CMDS=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="3" [2]="33" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='4.3.33(1)-release' BLACK='\[\e[00;30\]' BLUE='\[\e[00;34m\]' BROWN='\[\e[00;33m\]' COLUMNS=134 CYAN='\[\e[00;36m\]' DIRSTACK=() DISPLAY=:0 EUID=0 GPG_TTY=/dev/pts/1 GRAY='\[\e[00;37m\]' GREEN='\[\e[00;32m\]' GROUPS=() HISTFILE=/root/.bash_history HISTFILESIZE=500 HISTSIZE=500 HOME=/root HOSTNAME=apollon HOSTTYPE=x86_64 IFS=$' \t\n' LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE= LIGHTBLUE='\[\e[01;34m\]' LIGHTCYAN='\[\e[01;36m\]' LIGHTGREEN='\[\e[01;32m\]' LIGHTPURPLE='\[\e[01;35m\]' LIGHTRED='\[\e[01;31m\]' LINES=63 LOGNAME=root LS_COLORS='rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:' LS_OPTIONS=--color=auto MACHTYPE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu MAIL=/var/mail/root MAILCHECK=60 NOCOLOR='\[\e[00m\]' OLDPWD=/etc/env.d OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin PIPESTATUS=([0]="0") PPID=3080 PS1='\[\e[01;31m\]\u\[\e[00m\]@\[\e[01;32m\]\h\[\e[00m\]:\[\e[01;33m\]\w\[\e[00m\]#\[\e[00;36m\]1\[\e[00m\]\$ \[\e]30;\u@\h\a\]' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' PURPLE='\[\e[00;35m\]' PWD=/root RED='\[\e[00;31m\]' REVRED='\[\e[07;31m\]' SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor SHLVL=1 SSH_AGENT_PID=3082 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-yQHO6kHuiWoK/agent.3081 SUDO_COMMAND=/bin/bash SUDO_GID=100 SUDO_UID=1962 SUDO_USER=dio TERM=xterm UID=0 USER=root USERNAME=root WHITE='\[\e[01;37m\]' YELLOW='\[\e[01;33m\]' _=/etc/env.d/77kde
Did you run env-update to re-create /etc/profile.env? Also, sudo may be interfering with your environment, which is pretty standard.
Also, are you using a display manager, or startx?
Mike, 1. I didn't do an env-update, but a reboot (afaik this will also lead to an updated environment). env-update also had no effect in this respect when I invoked it right now. 2. I'm starting kdm as a display manager via /etc/init.d/xdm
By default, /etc/env.d is excluded from configuration protection - you need to adjust your CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK if you don't want it overwritten. Also, are you really using IA64?
> By default, /etc/env.d is excluded from configuration protection - you need > to adjust your CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK if you don't want it overwritten. Also, > are you really using IA64? No, sorry, I actually meant x86_64 — changed that to AMD64. Interestingly, this morning, when I booted my machine, the problem has disappeared ... I doubt this comes from the daily emerge this night, which only updated some virtual perl modules and openoffice-org. But yet, I still wonder how this could happen ... it's been working for almost 2 years now — without interruption. Let's keep this open for another couple days to see if it's stable again. If nothing changes, I will close the bug.
