On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 04:25, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > My practice for many years has been to have a root terminal running, > which I start via 'konsole' + 'su'. After a system update + reboot, > I am confronted with : > > Warning: Could not find 'su', starting '/bin/bash' instead. > Please check your profile settings. > > 499: ~> su > bash: su: command not found > > I always start from a raw terminal & use 'startx', > so hopefully I can still login as root & do system things that way, > but can anyone suggest what might have caused this problem ? > -- one pkg which was updated was 'shadow' : might that be the cause ?
That is the package which provides it on my box at least. It has a 'su' USE flag, maybe it somehow got flipped on your box? Regards, Arve