That is good to hear. I guess I would only ask how the path got foobar'ed in the first place. Was it something you set in .bashrc (or one of those files that I am always trying to figure out where to change my path), or was it a system change such as /etc/profile. I am not sure the exact file, but I would be a little suspicious. Maybe that is what happened to the upgrade. It foobar'ed along the way.
Just a thought. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 01:40:49AM -0800, Jason Snyder wrote: > I fixed the problem through the use of this command: > export > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/ > X11R6/bin > Thanks, > jason > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Jeff Newmiller > <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > Jason Snyder wrote: > > I just upgraded to linux 10.4 from linux 9.10 and am having problems > > with running programs and looking at directories in the terminal. > > > > For instance the command ls should give me all the contents of the > > directory that I am in. However, this is what I get when I enter ls: > > > > snyde...@snyderjm-laptop:/$ ls > > Command 'ls' is available in '/bin/ls' > > The command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in > the > > PATH environment variable. > > ls: command not found > > > > > > Can you please help me resolve this issue ASAP so that I can start > > working with programs that are on my desktop and also on my external > > hard drives from within the terminal? These include many fortran > > based programs. > > > > Looks to me like you have NOT upgraded to 10.4... that is, the > upgrade > did not complete successfully. > Unfortunately, there are enough ways for an upgrade to break that > this > may not be resolvable via the mailing list. A clean OS reinstall is > often the simplest way to fix it (having /home on a separate > filesystem > from / makes this relatively painless, but if you followed a default > install then you probably have a single filesystem). You did back > up > your data before upgrading, right? ;) > You might try catching the grub dialog right after reboot and > picking > one of the earlier non-debug backup kernel/OS options as a way to > get an > operational system to start from again. > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [2][email protected] > > [3]http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [4][email protected] > [5]http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > 4. mailto:[email protected] > 5. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" Professor Edsger Dijkstra 1972 Turing award recipient _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
