Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL
On 6/13/22 00:29, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 03:22:29 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
Debian 11 AMD
At the end of my weekly UPGRADE session using synaptic, the system
hung. I restarted using the hardware RESET button. The system
booted and found a number of orphaned nodes.
When I started synaptic a message was displayed that I needed to run
dpkg --configure -a. When I ran that command, the following message
is displayed:
root@penelope:/home/rlh# dpkg --configure -a
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
Running dpkg again gives the same result.
Should I continue to run the system, or do I need to reinstall?
I've been in fear the security folks will figure out a way to harrass us
more, but
I just checked, and "sudo -E synaptic" still works for user 1000 in
bullseye.
The fact that your working directory is a user's (yours?), and
…sbin directories are not in your $PATH suggests you might have
become root using "su" and not "su -" or "su --login". Try one
of these instead. (The change to su's semantics gets discussed
here fairly regularly.)
Cheers,
David.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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