While I was adding Golang to the PATH my terminal (Konsole) suddenly stopped recognizing basic commands like nano
and ls
. I restared my PC and after logging back in (X11) KDE started throwing errors because it wasn’t able to find any program I tried to launch. Konsole is gone. I can’t open any program whatsoever (Firefox, Discover etc.). Trying to log in into Wayland just throws a black screen. After a few more reatarts I decided to use the terminal from the login screen, but it is broken as well. ls
not found, nano
and vim
don’t exist. So far I can use pwd
and cd
.
What the hell is wrong here? Is it hardware failure (bad SSD)? Is there anything I can attempt to recover the system?
I think I know what happened. Did you do something like
PATH="/usr/bin/golang"
?Because doing that overwrite your path variable. You need to set it like this:
PATH="{PATH}:/usr/bin/golang"
to append to the path.And well… I hope you got a backup of your
/root/.bashrc
or whatever you use as a terminal. Restoring it should fix itEdit: you should be able to use any program by appending /usr/bin/ to your commands, as long as it’s in this directory
You are right. I messed it up adn didn’t put $ infront of PATH… Luckily I found an stackoverflow post with a similar issue and it suggested setting PATH to the default
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
that would alowe using commands again and it worked.