On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 06:12:07PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote: > > > > There are other strange things going on which may or not be related. I tried > > to > > reinstall lightdm and the greeter using apt. (The Debian partition is > > mounted > > on my Fedora partition) but apt failed saying it could not contact > > debian.deb to > > gain access to the needed files. I downloaded the files from Fedora and > > moved them > > to Debian but dpkg said it could not access them !!?? > > > > If you're using raw dpkg tp install them - you are root? If using su, it > needs to be su - to get roots login environment.
Unless you create an /etc/default/su file to fix what Debian broke. unicorn:~$ cat /etc/default/su ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes That restores the PATH behavior to how it was before Debian switched upstream sources for su in buster. Anyway, it sounded like the OP had some permission/ownership changes which were breaking things, but they managed to find them and revert them. Or some of them. We'll have to await further details.
