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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
