Bug#641013: upgrade-reports: ldconfig not found in path - start-stop-deamon not fount in path - dpkg error code (2) +++

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 14:46 +0200, amd965 wrote:
> Forhåndsoppsetter pakker ...
> dpkg: advarsel: «ldconfig» ikke funnet i PATH eller ikke kjørbar.
> dpkg: advarsel: «start-stop-daemon» ikke funnet i PATH eller ikke kjørbar.
> 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.

The last line there highlights the cause of the problem - both ldconfig
and start-stop-daemon are in /sbin, which is assumed to be on root's
PATH, and must have the execute bit set.  How are you invoking dpkg, in
order to break those assumptions?

Regards,

Adam