Bash: command not found

Question

Since two days, I have a problem running some system commands, for example:
mkinitcpio
reboot
lspci
etc.
The result being: bash: mkinitcpio: command not found
The files are there, but work only if I give full path to them. I know it has something to do with the PATH variable not being loaded at the start of system, but I do not know how to fix it.
Help, please.
Last edited by Lockheed (2011-05-13 21:31:31)

Answer 1

$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib/libfm:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/juha/bin
$ cat /etc/profile
# /etc/profile
#Set our umask
umask 022
# Set our default path
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
export PATH
# Load profiles from /etc/profile.d
if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then
for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
test -r "$profile" && . "$profile"
done
unset profile
fi
# Source global bash config
if test "$PS1" && test "$BASH" && test -r /etc/bash.bashrc; then
. /etc/bash.bashrc
fi
# Termcap is outdated, old, and crusty, kill it.
unset TERMCAP
# Man is much better than us at figuring this out
unset MANPATH