Serious Problem

[Colleen Beamer]

Hi All,

I'm having to send this from Windows hell, but I can't do anything in
my Linux environment.

I can log in, but every time I issue a command, I get told that it's
not found.  For instance, when I ran startx, it couldn't find the
command.  When I ran ls, it couldn't find the command.  I even tried
entering a path to the command, like /usr/bin/ls and /bin/ls, but to
no avail.

Yesterday, I did a couple of things on the computer and don't know if
that had anything to do with my problem.

First, I wanted to install my krecipes program which I retrieved via
svn.  When I tried to do that, I got told that for the present kde
used unsermake instead of the gnu make utility.  So, I installed
unsermake and then did the "export PATH" thing to be able to use
unsermake from where it was insalled.  No perceivable problems after
doing this.

Then, I did a yum update which installed a number of new KDE packages
from the updates-released repository.

Today, I added a program which I installed via tarball and edited my
.bash profile to make the permanent addition to my path.  Then, I
rebooted and now, no commands will work.

Any ideas what is going on here and what I have to do to fix it?

Regards,

Colleen

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 12:38 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  I'm having to send this from Windows hell, but I can't do anything in
>  my Linux environment.
>  
>  I can log in, but every time I issue a command, I get told that it's
>  not found.  For instance, when I ran startx, it couldn't find the
>  command.  When I ran ls, it couldn't find the command.  I even tried
>  entering a path to the command, like /usr/bin/ls and /bin/ls, but to
>  no avail.
>  
>  Yesterday, I did a couple of things on the computer and don't know if
>  that had anything to do with my problem.
>  
>  First, I wanted to install my krecipes program which I retrieved via
>  svn.  When I tried to do that, I got told that for the present kde
>  used unsermake instead of the gnu make utility.  So, I installed
>  unsermake and then did the "export PATH" thing to be able to use
>  unsermake from where it was insalled.  No perceivable problems after
>  doing this.
>  
>  Then, I did a yum update which installed a number of new KDE packages
>  from the updates-released repository.
>  
>  Today, I added a program which I installed via tarball and edited my
>  .bash profile to make the permanent addition to my path.  Then, I
>  rebooted and now, no commands will work.
>  
>  Any ideas what is going on here and what I have to do to fix it? 
Sounds like your PATH is screwed up.

Quick workaround:

PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

What did you put in your .bash profile?

Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org&gt;

[Gaddis, Jeremy L.]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
>  I can log in, but every time I issue a command, I get told that
> it's
>  not found.  For instance, when I ran startx, it couldn't find the
>  command.  When I ran ls, it couldn't find the command.  I even tried
>  entering a path to the command, like /usr/bin/ls and /bin/ls, but to
>  no avail.
>  
>  Today, I added a program which I installed via tarball and edited my
>  .bash profile to make the permanent addition to my path.  Then, I
>  rebooted and now, no commands will work. 
Hi Colleen,

It sounds as if your $PATH is hosed.  Can you paste the relevant info
from your .bash_profile.

On a long shot, did you by chance do something like...

"export PATH=/path/to/new/program"

...when you should've done something like...

"export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/new/program"?

-j

-- 
Jeremy L. Gaddis     <jeremy(a)linuxwiz.net&gt;

"If it's not on fire, then it's a software problem."

[Mark Sargent]

Colleen Beamer wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm having to send this from Windows hell, 
>  
Hi All,

good to see all is well...may I suggest knoppix, so as never having to 
go back to that other world, ever again(one hopes)...cheers.

Mark Sargent.