[SOLVED] Problems with updating

[fetterchefkoch]

Hello Everyone ,

I just tried to update my linux mint through the console with

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and the errormessage I get is

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Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable.
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

I don't know what the problem is.

Thanks in advance for any help .

[rich_roast]

Check that root's path is set correctly with

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sudo -s
echo $PATH

[fetterchefkoch]

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lenovo-laptop # echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

So I suppose the the folder /usr/local/sbin and /usr/sbin and /sbin are missing.
The next question would be how to add them .

[Midnighter]

What version of mint are you using? What is the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Is this a fresh install? have you added any repos?

[fetterchefkoch]

Did you mean with "version of mint":

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uname -a
Linux lenovo-laptop 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 18:02:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

?

content of /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free

no it is not a fresh install. I've been using it for about 3 month and have done various updates and installs. I haven't had any problems until yesterday and I didn't install anything else.

I tried to update my mint via sudo su. It updated everything except the packages which do need the path to sbin.

[Gerd50]

Hello fetterchefkoch,

to fix it run

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gksu gedit etc/sudoers

in sudoers you'll find the line:

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Defaults   env_reset

under this line add:

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Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

This fix worked for me, hope for you too

[proxima_centauri]

* Moved to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian) < Update/Upgrade Issues

[fetterchefkoch]

Well it worked now. Thanks for the useful tips