Lost lots of stuff by installing xfce4

Hi,
Just installed xfce4, and lots of stuff disappeared. It happened once, so I reinstalled, tried grabbing xfce4 again, but then it happened again. Lots of commands like ifconfig, dhcpcd, iwconfig, reboot +++ are missing. What the heck is this?
Just did a reboot, and now I can not connect to my network anymore (as ifconfig/dhcpcd is .. gone?)
Thanks a lot.
- edit -
Found out that I can run the commands from /sbin/, so there seem to be some symlink problems or something. Anybody?
Last edited by loathsome (2008-04-27 22:38:50)

Same symptom here. My PATH becomes something like this:
/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:.
Notice the trailing "." That's not a typo, this has happened several times.
When happened to me for the for the first time three months ago, I thought it was due to bad sectors on the harddrive which I found when trying to track the cause of this problem.
Since then, I've gone through three computers and several more harddrives. Until I finally found this post
Yes, it could be fixed by renaming /etc/profile.pacsave to /etc/profile. Thank you elliott
This "bug" has cost me several days of work and I would like to learn from it... Does anyone know why the renaming takes place? Is there anything else that got messed up during the upgrade? (experiences?)
r|r
Last edited by raroman (2008-05-28 20:29:30)

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