Bug User PATH environment variable not used

Hello everyone,

Whenever I use Unity Hub to start Unity, and my IDE (VSCode) through Unity, the

PATH

environment variable is set to the one active for the entire system, but doesn't include the content from the user specific value. The latter one might be used for installation of software in the users directory as it is e. g. done with Visual Studio Code by default and probably other software as well. Since the

PATH

doesn't include paths that are user specific, executing applications that otherwise would be included in the (user specific)

PATH

is not possible, which can break scripts or Tasks.

Steps to reproduce:
- Make sure that the users

Path

environment variable contains at least one path (that ideally isn't contained in the system wide value)
- Open Unity Hub (restarting Unity Hub doesn't influence this behavior)
- inspect the environment variables of Unity Hub using e. g. Process Explorer (select process, right click, properties, environment)
-> the user specific paths should be contained
- Open a Unity project (and thus a Unity instance) through Unity Hub
- inspect the environment variables using e. g. Process Explorer (select process, right click, properties, environment)
-> Result: the user specific paths are not contained
-> Expected: the

PATH

environment variable is the same as the one of Unity Hub

Optional further steps:
- Open the IDE through Unity e. g. using "Assets" -> "Open C# Project"
- inspect the environment variables using e. g. Process Explorer (select process, right click, properties, environment
-> Result: the user specific paths are not contained
-> Expected: the

PATH

environment variable is the same as the one of Unity Hub

The

PATH

environment variable is set properly when the IDE is started directly e. g. through the start menu.

The problem occurs with:
- Windows 10
- Unity Hub 3.4.2
- Unity 2021.3.24

It's rather likely that the Windows and Unity version don't influence this behavior. I didn't test other setups yet.

 

Bump since there was no response in almost a month.

Is this a Bug in Unity Hub or in Unity? Is this a known bug? Will this be fixed? (Of course I'd also be curious to know what leads to this behavior, if anything is known already.)

 

I got the hint that Process Explorer could be used in order to inspect the environment variables of a process. I've adjusted the description accordingly.