Re: E: sub-process, DPKG
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, John Persson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is John.
> I'm totally new to Linux but understand the basics of it.
>
> I get same error every new install of debian.
>
> I do net install with potato, right after logging in as root i type apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. and all that works fine. then i change the sources.list to
>
>
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
>
> do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> Now in the end I recive these messages:
>
> dpkg: 'update-rc.d' not found on path.
> dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on path.
> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (2)
>
> Ive asked many in the irc channels. they all say do export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin/:/sbin:$PATH and that doesnt seem to help either.
> ive searched on google.com and cant find any solution in there.... found many ppl that gets the NB: root line... and update-rc.d not found.
>
>
> The first times i never got these errors when I installed debian.... installed it over 15 time or more now.
>
> hope that you can help me sort this out, if not just ignore this message.
This is fixed in dpkg 1.10.1, which has already been uploaded, but is sitting
in incoming, and not yet installed into the archive.
To fix it, upgrade sysvinit.
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