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)

francesco pietra

<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi</div><div>Following amd64 upgrade from stretch to buster on both a vaio laptop and an asus desktop,command &lt;shutdown&gt; disappeared, while a severe bug arose with dpkg that breaks upgrade/install</div><div><br></

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>pkg: warning: &#39;ldconfig&#39; not found in PATH or not executable<br>dpkg: warning: &#39;start-stop-daemon&#39; not found

in PATH or not executable<br>dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable<br>Note: root&#39;s PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin<br>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)</div></
blockquote><div><br></div><div>francesco pietra<br></div></div></div>

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On 24/11/18 20:43, 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

shutdown command can be only executed by root user, so try su root
before using it.

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Happy hacking

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are you trying to invent warm water?
fp

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:16 AM qorg11 <qorg@vxempire.xyz> wrote:

On 24/11/18 20:43, 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

shutdown command can be only executed by root user, so try su root
before using it.

--

Happy hacking

<div dir="ltr"><div>are you trying to invent warm water?</div><div>fp<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:16 AM qorg11 &lt;<a href="mailto:qorg@vxempire.xyz">qorg@vxempire.xyz</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><
blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 24/11/18 20:43, Francesco Pietra wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi<br>
&gt; Following amd64 upgrade from stretch to buster on both a vaio laptop and an<br>
&gt; asus desktop,command &lt;shutdown&gt; disappeared, while a severe bug arose with<br>
&gt; dpkg that breaks upgrade/install<br>

shutdown command can be only executed by root user, so try su root <br>
before using it.<br>

-- <br>

Happy hacking<br>

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To avoid other users lose time, it is of course easy to remedy by exporting what is failing about sbin in /etc/profile.d. Nonetheless, that should not occur on upgrading debian
fp
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From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: severe bug dpkg following upgrade to buster
To: <qorg@vxempire.xyz>
Cc: amd64 Debian <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>


are you trying to invent warm water?
fp

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:16 AM qorg11 <qorg@vxempire.xyz> wrote:

On 24/11/18 20:43, 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

shutdown command can be only executed by root user, so try su root
before using it.

--

Happy hacking

<div dir="ltr">To avoid other users lose time, it is of course easy to remedy by exporting what is failing about sbin in /etc/profile.d. Nonetheless, that should not occur on upgrading debian<div>fp<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">--
-------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Francesco Pietra</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chiendarret@gmail.com">chiendarret@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 6:58 AM<br>Subject: Re:
severe bug dpkg following upgrade to buster<br>To: &lt;<a href="mailto:qorg@vxempire.xyz">qorg@vxempire.xyz</a>&gt;<br>Cc: amd64 Debian &lt;<a href="mailto:debian-amd64@lists.debian.org">debian-amd64@lists.debian.org</a>&gt;<br></div><br><br><div dir="
ltr"><div>are you trying to invent warm water?</div><div>fp<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:16 AM qorg11 &lt;<a href="mailto:qorg@vxempire.xyz" target="_blank">qorg@vxempire.xyz</a>&gt; wrote:<br></

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>

On 24/11/18 20:43, Francesco Pietra wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi<br>
&gt; Following amd64 upgrade from stretch to buster on both a vaio laptop and an<br>
&gt; asus desktop,command &lt;shutdown&gt; disappeared, while a severe bug arose with<br>
&gt; dpkg that breaks upgrade/install<br>

shutdown command can be only executed by root user, so try su root <br>
before using it.<br>

-- <br>

Happy hacking<br>

</blockquote></div>
</div></div></div>

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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.

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Len Sorensen

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

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:12 PM Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> 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

<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, I set the house in order with much less elegant commands</div><div>francesco<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:12 PM Lennart Sorensen &lt;<a href="mailto:lsorense@csclub.
uwaterloo.ca">lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:43:29PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi<br>
&gt; Following amd64 upgrade from stretch to buster on both a vaio laptop and an<br>
&gt; asus desktop,command &lt;shutdown&gt; disappeared, while a severe bug arose with<br>
&gt; dpkg that breaks upgrade/install<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; pkg: warning: &#39;ldconfig&#39; not found in PATH or not executable<br> &gt; &gt; dpkg: warning: &#39;start-stop-daemon&#39; not found in PATH or not executable<br>
&gt; &gt; dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable<br>
&gt; &gt; Note: root&#39;s PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and<br>
&gt; &gt; /sbin<br>
&gt; &gt; E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>

How did you become root?<br>

Remember &#39;su&#39; keeps the environment (including PATH) of current user,<br>
while &#39;su -&#39; gets the proper environment of the root user (so /sbin and<br>
such is in PATH).<br>

I think sudo already does the right thing.<br>

su without the - is almost always the wrong thing to do.<br>

-- <br>
Len Sorensen<br>
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:12:26AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen 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)

zless /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz is where this was
announced.

ael

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:59:06PM +0000, ael wrote:

zless /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz is where this was
announced.

Wow, I never knew the su command used to have such misbehaviours on
Debian. I guess being used to doing 'su -' from years of using different
unix systems I never noticed.

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Len Sorensen

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Little bit OT:

I am not sure, if I understood that correct, but as the manual says,

"su" is preserving the environment and "su -" is creating a new one.
However, for becoming root, I am using "su -", but when I want to edit files with root privileges with a graphical editor (i.e. kwrite), I always need
"su -p".

But the manual says, "su" alone would preseve the environment.

Where is my mistake?

Best

Hans

Wow, I never knew the su command used to have such misbehaviours on
Debian. I guess being used to doing 'su -' from years of using different unix systems I never noticed.

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