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?

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    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 it

    Edit: you should be able to use any program by appending /usr/bin/ to your commands, as long as it’s in this directory

    • some_random_nick@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.