Hello team, I sent the following to Brian Mays, Hi Brian, for some reason I have lost the path in my upgrade. I thought it would be a safe upgrade to go from stable to testing so I did and now I have no X, no pcmcia, etcetra. Dselect said that PATH wasn't showing usr/local /usr/bin/ usr/sbin etcetra. to be able to maintain this computers operability I used mc to find lilo and ran it to make sure it configured. Now I am writing to you on the same machine with win98. Would you please tell me where to write it. So I can go back to my debian 3.
His answer > Mike - The two usual places where the path is set and changed are the > following files: > > /etc/login.defs > /etc/profile So I changed profile as login.defs ok and no different. Dselect is looking for files to tell it what to do and can't find them. MC still works. I ran ldconfig from mc and it made no difference I have written to Brian and am asking for your help while I wait for his reply. This is the message I sent to Brian in reply: Date sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:58:58 +1030 Thanks Brian, I added usr/local/bin and the rest to profile. They were already present in login.defs and it unfortunately has made no difference. Yesterday I downloaded 200 meg of files for the upgrade and it appeared dselect installed everything. However looking today dselect sees the installed versions are the old ones. But I watched them all get upgraded yesterday. X cannot find what it needs dselect cannot find what it needs install info etcetra. I want to maintain this upgrade somehow but now have no idea how. cheers, Mike cheers, Mike
