[vox-tech] Linux 10.4 update problems

[Jason Snyder]

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
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>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
> >
> >
> > 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
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