[vox-tech] Linux 10.4 update problems

[Jason Snyder]

I fixed the problem with using this command:

export
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:53:39AM -0800, Jeff Newmiller 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:
> > >
> > > snyderjm at 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
>
> ugh. That is enough to give you grief, especially if you have a project
> you are working on. I usually wait until the end of the semester (or
> quarter) to do an upgrade, for that specific reason. I seem to often do
> wierd tweaks that will send an upgrade in odd directions.
>
> > >
> > >
> > > 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? ;)
>
> Or, in a pinch, use the Ubuntu USB thumb drive. When spell check didn't
> work because I deleted the spell check program (later reinstalled it
> when I figured out it was missing), I was able to boot from the Ubuntu
> thumb drive, open my document on my hard drive, spell check it, and then
> save it right back to my local hard drive, or copy it somewhere else.
>
> brian
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>
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