[TriLUG] Root problems

[Jason Tower]

this may be WAY too simple a fix, but are you switching from a regular user to 
root with the 'su' command?  if so, try using 'su -' instead.

jason

On Thursday 14 November 2002 13:48, William Gomeringer wrote:
> I have been running into a LOT of strange problems lately, but since I
> am running Debian unstable I guess I'm getting what I deserve. Anyway,
> I'm getting these errors when I try to run certain programs as root on a
> terminal only.
>
> dpkg: 'ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 'start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 'install-info' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 'update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
>
> I have no problems when logged into X and I use Eterm and I haven't
> changed anything so these files are in my path.
>
> Another problem that just surfaced, and I know this is not Debian
> specific since I am running the same setup on my laptop and have not
> seen this problem, when I open Galeon(CVS version) it just continues to
> open Galeon windows until I exit X. I had 30+ windows spawn one right
> after the other. Any ideas?