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Jeff Cliff:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Not really sure where to submit this but upgrading to buster via instructions
> at
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
> resulted in a system that would boot fine, but when i went back in to
> aptitude afterwards I noticed
> /sbin (and its subdirectories, eg /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin ) was not
> in root's path. This meant
> if I used 'su' to log in to root, to install/upgrade/whathaveyou ...ldconfig,
> 'shutdown' among other
> things was not in the path.
>
> I've now upgraded 2 systems from stable to buster and both did the same thing.
>
> adding
>
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>
> to .bashrc for root (which was empty) made at least installing/upgrading via
> aptitude work...but there
> wasn't much indication that I had to do this anywhere.
>
> If this is something new that we have to do for buster, it should be in the
> instructions
>
> [...]
Hi Jeff,
Are you perhaps using "su" (instead of "su -") when changing to root?
If so, then there is a Stretch -> Buster specific change specifically
for "su" about that in util-linux's NEWS file. It will probably be
written in the release-notes for buster (once we start writing those for
buster).
I can recommend using "apt-listchanges", which will show the NEWS files
of packages on upgrades.
Thanks,
~Niels
