Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

["Nick De Graeve" <nick.degraeve@gmail.com>]

I'm trying to upgrade a Sarge box to Etch and several "dpkg: `x' not
found on PATH"-errors occured.


I followed the instructions in the release notes
(
http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-
upgrading.en.html):

I ran

     # aptitude upgrade
     # aptitude install initrd-tools
     # aptitude install libfam0 xlibmesa-glu

When I ran the last command I noticed these errors:

[...]
Fetched 892kB in 2s (363kB/s)
dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 4 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 an error code (2)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to
recover:
dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /
sbin.
[...]

I checked and indeed, /sbin/ and /usr/sbin/ weren't in root's PATH
variable. (I fixed that now)

I suspected that these messages appeared in the previous commands too
and indeed, with the upgrade of initrd-tools it had similar errors.
For the 1st command I couldn't find the console output anymore but I
fear the worst.


What should I do?

Thanks.

Nick

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