Re: Serious Problem

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 07/31/05

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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:12:31 +0100

    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. 

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