200312 Philip Webb wrote:
> My practice for many years has been to have a root terminal running,
> which I start via 'konsole' + 'su'.  After a system update + reboot,
> I am confronted with :
> 
>   Warning: Could not find 'su', starting '/bin/bash' instead.
>   Please check your profile settings.
> 
>   499: ~> su
>   bash: su: command not found
> 
> I always start from a raw terminal & use 'startx',
> so hopefully I can still login as root & do system things that way.

'eix shadow' provided the solution : there's a new USE flag 'su'.
when that is enabled, 'shadow' is remerged & the system rebooted
-- the last is essential -- , all returns to normal.

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