Package: base-files
Version: 11.1
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
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Recently, I had the pleasure of installing Debian 11.0.0 AMD64 on an older
Celeron 1800 desktop system.
Initially, the vast majority of the console executables would not run,
either as a user or as root, and generated only a "command not found" message.
Fortunately, there was a (perhaps too) easy fix, documented below.
In the /etc/profile file, the following changes were made, and these fixed
the problem by reconfiguring the PATH environment variable. Admittedly,
this simple solution might be a bad hack in a more complex installation.
But, at least, this hatchet job might prove slightly instructive.
This section was removed:
if [ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH
This section was created by cutting it down, and used to replace it:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:
/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
export PATH
Once this was done, every console executable worked.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii gawk [awk] 1:5.1.0-1
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.4.20200120-2
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
