Hi,

reproducer for the problem:

$ mkdir tmp
$ sudo debootstrap bookworm tmp/
[...]
$ sudo PATH=not-set-correctly /usr/sbin/chroot tmp/ /bin/bash -l
bash: id: command not found
bash: [: : integer expression expected

PATH is taken from the parent shell, and that's sometimes undefined or
doesn't include /usr/bin/.

As such, the line 4 in /etc/profile should be changed from

if [ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then

to

if [ "$(/usr/bin/id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then

Thanks in advance!

Greets,
Lee

El 6/11/24 a las 15:42, Lee Garrett escribió:

Thanks for the report, but I believe this is incompatible
with the existing plan to remove PATH from /etc/profile
(some day, maybe for trixie).

When we removed PATH from /etc/profile, we implicitly take for granted that
the PATH is already sane by the time it's executed.

So, instead of making /etc/profile more complex, which I would consider a step
in the wrong direction, I would try to investigate why in your system
the PATH was not sane to begin with.

Thanks.

Hello. Given that some distributions (for example, Ubuntu) do not have
any PATH at all in /etc/profile, I consider reasonable to assume that
by the time /etc/profile is read, PATH contains /usr/bin at least.

So, if PATH is undefined or does not include /usr/bin, it's probably a
symptom that there is something wrong somewhere. Modifying /etc/profile
as suggested would just hide the problem and make the file more
complex without a real need.

Thanks.