nrfutil toolchain-manager launch won't work with zsh

[Adam BZH]

As title says, I have a clean install of Xubuntu 23.10, latest nrfutil and toolchain-manager package

My shell is zsh, however "nrfutil toolchain-manager launch --shell zsh" will not giving me a shell that with a working west

If I force it to use bash then everything is fine with following PATH

PATH=/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/local/bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/opt/bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/opt/nanopb/generator-bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/opt/zephyr-sdk/aarch64-zephyr-elf/bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/opt/zephyr-sdk/x86_64-zephyr-elf/bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/opt/zephyr-sdk/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/opt/zephyr-sdk/riscv64-zephyr-elf/bin:/home/localuser/bin:/home/localuser/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/snap/bin

While in zsh it's clearly missing lot's of things

PATH=/home/localuser/bin:/home/localuser/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/snap/bin

Could someone from the team texplain how the shell was invoked? since the new version of nrfutil no longer opensource, I cannot figure it out

[Michal]

Hello,

I have to check with the developers about zsh support on Linux.

Best regards,

Michal

[Michal]

Hello again,

Could you provide the output of running printenv in your zsh terminal after launching it with nrfutil?

Best regards,

Michal

[Adam BZH]

CLUTTER_BACKEND=x11
COLORTERM=truecolor
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.ubuntu.com 
DESKTOP_SESSION=xubuntu
DISPLAY=:0.0
DISTCC_HOSTS=+zeroconf
EDITOR=vim
GDMSESSION=xubuntu
GDM_LANG=en_US
GIT_EXEC_PATH=/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/local/libexec/git-core
GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/local/share/git-core/templates
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/1000/keyring
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
HOME=/home/localuser
HOSTNAME=zephyr-dev
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_ADDRESS=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_NAME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/lib:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/local/lib:/home/localuser/.nrfutil/lib/nrfutil-toolchain-manager
LESSOPEN=|lesspipe %s
LESS_TERMCAP_mb=
LESS_TERMCAP_md=
LESS_TERMCAP_me=
LESS_TERMCAP_se=
LESS_TERMCAP_so=
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=
LESS_TERMCAP_us=
LOGNAME=localuser
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MAIL=/var/mail/localuser
NRFUTIL_EXEC_PATH=/home/localuser/.nrfutil/bin/nrfutil
NRFUTIL_LAUNCHER_VERSION=1.0.0
NRFUTIL_TOOLCHAIN_MANAGER_CURRENT_TOOLCHAIN=2be090971e
OLDPWD=/home/localuser/Documents/gfw_cracker
PAGER=less
PATH=/home/localuser/bin:/home/localuser/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/snap/bin
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PYTHONHOME=/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/local
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QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
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READNULLCMD=less
SESSION_MANAGER=local/zephyr-dev:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1188,unix/zephyr-dev:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1188
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TERM=xterm-256color
USER=localuser
VTE_VERSION=7400
WINDOWID=56623107
WRITE_ON_UDEV=yes
XAUTHORITY=/home/localuser/.Xauthority
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop:/usr/share
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XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_VTNR=7
ZEPHYR_SDK_INSTALL_DIR=/home/localuser/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/opt/zephyr-sdk
ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT=zephyr
_=/usr/bin/printenv

[Michal]

Thank you. I have forwarded the information, but the main developer is unfortunately out of office currently, so I'll get back to you when they'll be back.

Best regards,

Michal

[Michal]

Hello again, one more quick update:

So according to nrfutil toolchain-manager launch --help

Options:
      --shell
          Launch a sub-shell within the current terminal
          
          The shell spawned is determined by the `SHELL` environment variable. An attempt is made to spawn the shell without running any config files (e.g. ".bashrc"), as these files could (potentially) mess up the environment. Officially supported shells are: "bash", "pwsh" and "zsh". Other shells might still work, but these are spawned with no flags.

Note: You can run any shell, with any number of flags, by
passing the command directly (see [COMMAND]).
          
          This feature is not supported on Windows.

According to this, you should set a SHELL environmental variable instead and then just run:

nrfutil toolchain-manager launch --shell

Best regards,

Michal

[Adam BZH]

well, my default shell is zsh, which you could find out in the printenv output, it says "SHELL=/bin/zsh"

I tried with --shell only it did not work that's why I appended zsh after it

[Michal]

Have you tried to edit SHELL to just zsh?

If that doesn't change anything then I think we unfortunately have to wait until the expert is back and can look deeper into this.