Newly installed packages: "No such file or directory"

Lickwid · 2008-08-15 18:44:42

Hi there, Arch newbie here, and I'm having a problem setting up my system correctly. It seems that everytime I install a new package, it can never be found by Arch. I've downloaded quite a few packages including alsa-utils and X from the official repositories and whenever I try to run alsamixer, or "Xorg -configure," the system gives me this error:

-bash: /usr/bin/name: No such file or directory

Initially I thought this might be a problem with Pacman so I decided to use "pacman -Syu" to update my system, now it gives me the same error when I try to run pacman! Any ideas what may be causing this? Any help would be appreciated.

Fyi: I'm running archlinux-2008.06-core-x86_64

Edit: Oh, it might also be worth mentioned that when I use the command "which name" (where name obviously is the name of the program in question, for example pacman), I always get back a directory for that program. It's a bit strange though, since I can never actually run the program even when I use its full path.

Last edited by Lickwid (2008-08-15 18:47:12)

tuxing · 2008-08-16 21:28:03

hello Lickwid!

you wrote problems on SETTING up archlinux:

if you're within the initial setup routine -- started by '/arch/setup' -- then note that everythng you do manually will be done in the initram disk only!

THAN:
look where your real harddisk partition is mounted on -- maybe /mnt/root .
When you install pkgs manually you need to tell pacman WHERE it should be installed to:
e.g. /mnt/root/usr/bin

I would recommend:
-- 1. run strait through the setup routine, step by step, no extra packages.
-- 2. reboot your freshly set up system.
-- 3. now you can install extra packages

This is much simpler, as the system is correctly setup according to your installation.

greez!

Inxsible · 2008-08-16 21:54:44

if pacman doesn't work...how are you installing anything?

Lickwid · 2008-09-03 18:08:40

Thanks for replying guys, first of all:

@Tuxing: I am installing and upgrading packages after the initial setup (meaning i've installed the core packages, rebooted, etc.)

@Inxsible: Pacman only stops functioning when I upgrade it, just like everything else.

Does anybody have any ideas about this? It's getting very frustrating

Daenyth · 2008-09-03 18:42:49

maybe your PATH is set wrong? Try reinstalling bash, maybe it got corrupted.

Majorix · 2008-09-03 18:43:37

-bash: /usr/bin/name: No such file or directory

There is apparently an exec called "/usr/bin/namei" on my Arch install (notice the "i" at the end, it's not a typo). I don't know what /usr/bin/name is, it might be a bug with bash; which is most likely calling the wrong file.

If all else fails report a bug for bash.

Lickwid · 2008-09-03 21:26:54

Majorix wrote:

-bash: /usr/bin/name: No such file or directory
There is apparently an exec called "/usr/bin/namei" on my Arch install (notice the "i" at the end, it's not a typo). I don't know what /usr/bin/name is, it might be a bug with bash; which is most likely calling the wrong file.
If all else fails report a bug for bash.

"/usr/bin/name" is just the example I'm using for program names, where "name" is the name of any given program (pacman, vi, sudo, nano etc). Sorry if that caused any confusion.

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Newly installed packages: "No such file or directory"

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