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badp
Asked: 2016-06-29 02:00:50 +0800 CST

lightdm launches upstart with a proxy configuration. Why?

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My computer seems stuck with a bad case of an hardcoded proxy. I have already tried setting no proxy in the Ubuntu configuration utility and applying the change system-wide. Grepping /etc for the proxy gives no results.

I tried seeing what processes do have this configuration variables:

pstree -p | grep -P "'"$(sudo grep -ialP '\0?https?_proxy=.*?\0?' */environ | cut -f1 -d'/' | grep -P '[0-9]+' | tr '\n' '|')"'"

The first process that gets highlighted is upstart, which is lanuched by lightdm (not highlighted).

Why is lightdm launching upstart with a proxy configured? How can I prevent this?

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1 Answers

  1. This was most likely caused by the contents of my ~/.profile file, which defined the relevant environment variables.

    If this shouldn't help you, then this increasingly nuclear command should?

    sudo bash -c " grep -ial $HTTP_PROXY ~/.* ||
               grep -rial $HTTP_PROXY ~/.* ||
               grep -rial $HTTP_PROXY ~ ||
               grep -rial $HTTP_PROXY /etc ||
               grep -rial $HTTP_PROXY $(find / -maxdepth 1 | grep -vP '(/$)|(/home)|(/tmp)|(/etc)') "
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