Re: severe bug dpkg following upgrade to buster

Thanks, I set the house in order with much less elegant commands
francesco

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:12 PM Lennart Sorensen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:43:29PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > Hi
> > Following amd64 upgrade from stretch to buster on both a vaio laptop and
> an
> > asus desktop,command <shutdown> disappeared, while a severe bug arose
> with
> > dpkg that breaks upgrade/install
> >
> > pkg: 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
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> > >
>
> How did you become root?
>
> Remember 'su' keeps the environment (including PATH) of current user,
> while 'su -' gets the proper environment of the root user (so /sbin and
> such is in PATH).
>
> I think sudo already does the right thing.
>
> su without the - is almost always the wrong thing to do.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>