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Bug 1729

Summary: SHELL env variable not set
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: David Holm <dholm>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 1.1a   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description David Holm 2002-04-13 10:54:03 UTC
Hi, 
$SHELL is not set when logging in, resulting in GDB failing to debug anything. Other programs are likely to fail 
as well, I tried adding it to /etc/profile.env but it was removed after reboot ;(.
Comment 1 David Holm 2002-04-13 10:56:03 UTC
Oops, my shell wasn't set up properly in /etc/passwd, sorry ;)