Hi Guillem, Further details - dpkg-reconfigure tzdata - had this problem as mentioned here: https://medium.com/@ehsan.nazim/bash-dpkg-reconfigure-command-not-found-in-debian-10-buster-b5c89ae84a75
and dpkg -i and Gdebi-gtk - Had this error 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 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=143249 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905564 Regards Darren Hale On 5/10/20, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2020-05-09 at 18:10:48 +1200, Darren Hale wrote: >> I have recently installed Debian Buster and found when invoking in >> terminal su and using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and dpkg -i that there >> is error messages. > > What error message? As is, this report does not really look > actionable. > >> I have read all the notes around Debian Buster and tried su - and >> other options and nothing works. I request that the dpkg work as it >> did in Debian Stretch and previous be the default so that these >> important system functions are restored such as dpkg -i when using su. >> I have wasted a lot of time trying to fix this issue with no >> resolution. > > My only guess, without more details, is that you might have stumbled > over behavior change in su after util-linux took it over from the > login package. See: > > $ zless /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz > > If that's the case, then I'd recommend installing apt-listchanges so > that you can see these NEWS entries on upgrade, and also reading the > Release Notes before such distribution upgrade: > > > <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#su-environment-variables> > > In any case this does not appear to be a problem with dpkg, as I'd > assume we'd have heard of such thing way earlier. > > Thanks, > Guillem >