Devuan bug report logs - #457
Beowulf upgrade drops "sbin" directories from root $PATH

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From: eidolon.alpha@protonmail.com

To: "submit@bugs.devuan.org" <submit@bugs.devuan.org>

Subject: Beowulf upgrade drops "sbin" directories from root $PATH

Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:02:56 +0000

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Package: unclear
Version: unclear (Beowulf-related)

Description of Problem
After upgrade from ASCII to Beowulf, /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin are dropped from the root $PATH variable.

Explanation

I performed an install of Devuan ASCII and immediately upgraded to beowulf:
sed -i 's/ascii/beowulf/g' /etc/apt/sources.list && \
apt-get update && \
apt-get dist-upgrade && \
apt-get autoremove && \
reboot

Upon reboot, I noticed that the "service" command could not be found. Nor could ifconfig. I could, however, run the command with the full path (ie, /sbin/ifconfig).

Workaround

echoing $PATH proved that there were no sbin directories (/sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin). I was able to work around this with a simple export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin for my root account.

Other system information
# uname -a:
Linux HOSTNAME 4.19.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2 (2020-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Release:        3
Codename:       beowulf

Of course, if I were the culprit (not the upgrade), feel free to call me out.

All the best,
- siva

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

To: eidolon.alpha@protonmail.com, 457-done@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: Re: bug#457: Beowulf upgrade drops "sbin" directories from root $PATH

Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 15:38:24 +0100

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 01:48:16PM +0000, eidolon.alpha@protonmail.com wrote:
> Yup, that's it. Definitely missed that release note. Thank you.

Thanks for confirming.

Closing.

Mark

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