Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 06:12:07PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote:
> >
> > There are other strange things going on which may or not be related. I tried
> > to
> > reinstall lightdm and the greeter using apt. (The Debian partition is
> > mounted
> > on my Fedora partition) but apt failed saying it could not contact
> > debian.deb to
> > gain access to the needed files. I downloaded the files from Fedora and
> > moved them
> > to Debian but dpkg said it could not access them !!??
> >
>
> If you're using raw dpkg tp install them - you are root? If using su, it
> needs to be su - to get roots login environment.
Unless you create an /etc/default/su file to fix what Debian broke.
unicorn:~$ cat /etc/default/su
ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes
That restores the PATH behavior to how it was before Debian switched
upstream sources for su in buster.
Anyway, it sounded like the OP had some permission/ownership changes
which were breaking things, but they managed to find them and revert
them. Or some of them. We'll have to await further details.
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