Re: environment.plist not being read at login?
Re: environment.plist not being read at login?
- Subject: Re: environment.plist not being read at login?
- From: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:51:47 -0400
Don't know if this is relevant, but a coworker said environment.plist
wasn't getting read if you use Spotlight to launch Xcode, as opposed
to double-clicking in the Finder. Been meaning to file a Radar on this.
--Andy
On May 21, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote:
From: Jack Repenning [mailto:email@hidden]
On May 21, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Michael Stauffer wrote:
In the past, I've used ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to set user
environment vars per Apple's instructions. I like to set some
environment vars to source paths that change sometimes, and then
expand them in Xcode's project settings. It's all worked fine in
the past, until I installed Leopard. It simply seems that
environment.plist is not being loaded, because I don't see my env
vars in the shell's list of env vars after logging in. Needless to
say, Xcode doesn't see them either. I've tried both using the plist
file I used on 10.4.11, and creating a new one, and also tried two
different accounts. Same problem.
Only thing unusual on my system is that one of the two accounts I
have has a home dir that's on a different partition, and symlinked
from /Users. It seems to be working fine, and I've always done that
in the past. The other account I tested has its home folder in the
regular place, on the startup partition.
I think you're saying that both these accounts have the same
problem, right? So that would mean the symlink is not the cause and
still (so far as we can tell) works as well as ever.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, that's right. Symlink does not seem to be
the problem.
I can create a shell script to set the vars and load xcode, and
that works, and I suppose I could create a .bashrc script(?), but
it bugs me that I can't get environment.plist working. Anyone have
any suggestions? Many thanks.
Scripts and .bashrc's won't help get the vars set when you launch
Xcode via double-click; you really want that plist working again.
Yeah, for now I'm also launching xcode from the script where I
export env vars and it works.
You don't mention whether you've checked file and directory
permissions. You don't mention whether you've checked Console for
messages during log-in. You don't mention whether you've checked
the file itself to be sure it hasn't been damaged somehow.
FWIW, my environment.plist is still working fine: this is not some
general Leopard bug (though it might still be some Leopard bug
that's triggered by something unusual in your set-up).
Permissions look fine. .MacOSX/ is 755, and environment.plist is
644. I've tried with both a copy of the file, and by creating a new
one using plist editor. I checked the console but don't see any msgs
regarding this file.
Yeah, doesn't seem like a general bug, since while looking around I
saw it was working for other folks.
-Michael
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