[vox-tech] Linux 10.4 update problems

[Brian Lavender]

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]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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