On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 03:22:29 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote: > Debian 11 AMD > > At the end of my weekly UPGRADE session using synaptic, the system > hung. I restarted using the hardware RESET button. The system > booted and found a number of orphaned nodes. > > When I started synaptic a message was displayed that I needed to run > dpkg --configure -a. When I ran that command, the following message > is displayed: > > root@penelope:/home/rlh# dpkg --configure -a > dpkg: 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 > > Running dpkg again gives the same result. > > Should I continue to run the system, or do I need to reinstall?
The fact that your working directory is a user's (yours?), and …sbin directories are not in your $PATH suggests you might have become root using "su" and not "su -" or "su --login". Try one of these instead. (The change to su's semantics gets discussed here fairly regularly.) Cheers, David.
