bash and kde not working

macshark · 12-23-2002, 11:27 AM

after installing the java sdk from sun, and I set the path in the etc/profile, kde does not start up correctly, and in terminal, basic functions like "ls" and "reboot" are invalid commands.

i can't even run emacs or pico to edit the profile file. i can get to the command line, but it seemed that the bash was not fully loaded.

any ideas on how this can be solved? thks.

Mara · 12-23-2002, 01:12 PM

I guess you did something like:
export PATH=JAVA_PATH_THERE
instead of
export PATH=$PATH:JAVA_PATH_THERE
Edit /etc/profile and change it. Before you do it:
export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
It should be enough to make most of the things working.

Why?
When you run
export PATH=/usr/local/bin
you chnage your PATH to '/usr/local/bin'. It's not what you should do, because you usually want to keep old PATH and only add a new directory to it.
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
adds /usr/local/bin to your PATH.