Re: dpkg Broken in Debian Buster
Hi Guillem,
I have been advised that the problem is with the behavior of su
changed when they moved it to a different source package and a fix is
to old behavior is to put ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes in /etc/default/su.
(create the file if it doesn't exist).
So thank you for your time and answers.
Regards
Darren Hale
On 5/10/20, Darren Hale <darry19662015@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guillem,
>
> Further details - dpkg-reconfigure tzdata - had this problem as mentioned
> here:
> https://medium.com/@ehsan.nazim/bash-dpkg-reconfigure-command-not-found-in-debian-10-buster-b5c89ae84a75
>
> and dpkg -i and Gdebi-gtk - Had this error
>
> dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
> Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
> /sbin
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=143249
>
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905564
>
> Regards
>
> Darren Hale
>
> On 5/10/20, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Sat, 2020-05-09 at 18:10:48 +1200, Darren Hale wrote:
>>> I have recently installed Debian Buster and found when invoking in
>>> terminal su and using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and dpkg -i that there
>>> is error messages.
>>
>> What error message? As is, this report does not really look
>> actionable.
>>
>>> I have read all the notes around Debian Buster and tried su - and
>>> other options and nothing works. I request that the dpkg work as it
>>> did in Debian Stretch and previous be the default so that these
>>> important system functions are restored such as dpkg -i when using su.
>>> I have wasted a lot of time trying to fix this issue with no
>>> resolution.
>>
>> My only guess, without more details, is that you might have stumbled
>> over behavior change in su after util-linux took it over from the
>> login package. See:
>>
>> $ zless /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz
>>
>> If that's the case, then I'd recommend installing apt-listchanges so
>> that you can see these NEWS entries on upgrade, and also reading the
>> Release Notes before such distribution upgrade:
>>
>>
>> <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#su-environment-variables>
>>
>> In any case this does not appear to be a problem with dpkg, as I'd
>> assume we'd have heard of such thing way earlier.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Guillem
>>
>
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