Fixed
Created: Apr 1, 2015
Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: May 7, 2015
Found In Version: 7.0
Fix Version: 7.0.0.6
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Userspace
When logging in as a user with bash as their shell the .bash_profile should be read to set up the environment. This does not seem to be happening.
The login command starts bash as "-bash" with the "-" sign indicating it is a login shell.
Starting bash with the -l option instead does seem to work, but this is not how login starts it. This worked in previous versions of WRL (at least in WRL4, not tested WRL5).
$ configure --enable-board=intel-x86-64 --enable-rootfs=glibc_std --enable-kernel=standard
$ make start-target
Log in as root. By default there is no .bash_profile so create one as follows:
# echo "export TEST=abcd" > .bash_profile
Log out and back again. The variable TEST should now exist, but it does not:
# env | grep TEST
#
Starting bash with the "-l" option does work however:
# bash -l
# env | grep TEST
TEST=abcd
#
So it seems limited to the case where bash is started as "-bash" as in the case where login starts it. Note however that the problem was initially seen using the runuser command, so this may be another way to demonstrate the issue.
