Bug#909395: upgrade-reports: missing sbin in root path
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Not really sure where to submit this but upgrading to buster via instructions at
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
resulted in a system that would boot fine, but when i went back in to aptitude afterwards I noticed
/sbin (and its subdirectories, eg /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin ) was not in root's path. This meant
if I used 'su' to log in to root, to install/upgrade/whathaveyou ...ldconfig, 'shutdown' among other
things was not in the path.
I've now upgraded 2 systems from stable to buster and both did the same thing.
adding
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
to .bashrc for root (which was empty) made at least installing/upgrading via aptitude work...but there
wasn't much indication that I had to do this anywhere.
If this is something new that we have to do for buster, it should be in the instructions
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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