Question

I am using Lion. I have an error that outputs on every new terminal session:

-bash: __rvm_add_to_path: command not found

It’s an almost brand new user account.. RVM is installed on the other account on the machine.. ~/.bashrc & ~/.bash_profile are both blank.. the out put of env is:

TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
TMPDIR=/var/folders/ry/8zsyknmx7dj4_2zzvn1n71500000gn/T/
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-jsfKPw/Render
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=303
TERM_SESSION_ID=3EBC0F1A-9867-41E5-8873-75E84B9F712F
USER=incorvia
COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-ZQqgPj/Listeners
Apple_Ubiquity_Message=/tmp/launch-u3d1lp/Apple_Ubiquity_Message
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin
PWD=/bin
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
HOME=/Users/incorvia
SHLVL=1
LOGNAME=incorvia
DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-0B0I8s/org.x:0
_=/usr/bin/env

I see nothing related to RVM here.. where else can I look?

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/etc/bashrc

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.
if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
   return
fi

PS1='\h:\W \u\$ '
# Make bash check its window size after a process completes
shopt -s checkwinsize
# Tell the terminal about the working directory at each prompt.
if [ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "Apple_Terminal" ] && [ -z "$INSIDE_EMACS" ]; then
    update_terminal_cwd() {
        # Identify the directory using a "file:" scheme URL,
        # including the host name to disambiguate local vs.
        # remote connections. Percent-escape spaces.
        local SEARCH=' '
        local REPLACE='%20'
        local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
        printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
    }
    PROMPT_COMMAND="update_terminal_cwd; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
fi

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Fixed…

In the bottom of my /etc/profile it was sourcing /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh

Don’t know how that got there…

Answer 1

Bash loads a series of files during startup. A good overview of the bash startup process can be found here.

Generally, the global settings, /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, and the associated personalized settings, ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc are loaded, although that is slightly distribution-dependant (and on Mac OS X, for example, by default /etc/profile doesn’t exist).

From the RVM Installation page:

Multi-User:

The rvm function will be automatically configured for every user on the system if you install as root. This is accomplished by loading /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh on login. Most Linux distributions default to parsing /etc/profile which contains the logic to load all files residing in the /etc/profile.d/ directory. Once you have added the users you want to be able to use RVM to the rvm group, those users MUST log out and back in to gain rvm group membership because group memberships are only evaluated by the operating system at initial login time.

I’d guess that the other use has installed in Multi-User mode;
/etc/profile probably loads /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh.

To stop it being loaded, you could remove the source RVM line from /etc/profile – this will stop it being loaded for all users, though.