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 >
