Upon opening Terminal I get the following message:
-bash: /usr/bin/manpath: No such file or directory
-bash: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory
-bash: grep: command not found
-bash: grep: command not found
-bash: grep: command not found
-bash: grep: command not found
I searched other threads for similar problems and I think I have a $PATH issue
I enter
echo $PATH
and get
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
could someone please help?
pamu
August 27, 2012, 3:05am
2
Is this correct path you are getting..?
what exact path you are working and how you get this PATH..?
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
How can I tell if it is correct? I assume it's is incorrect because the grep and man commands are not working.
I'm not sure how to answer your second question.
pamu
August 27, 2012, 3:29am
4
Hi SartreSmartre ,
From the path itself it clears that your getting wrong path, just check how you are getting this path then you will get answer.
Put some more details about this...
I was editing two files in emacs, in my home folder. My computer slowed to a crawl for no obvious reason. I ran Disk Utility from my Snow Leopard install drive. I selected the Verify Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk options. There were a ton of errors, which the Disk Utility repaired. Now, when I begin a Terminal session there's the above error message and commands like man, grep, and emacs yield only "command not found."
Thanks for responding by the way.
RudiC
August 27, 2012, 4:14am
6
Beginnig a bash terminal session implies running ~/.profile and/or ~/.bashrc. Setting the -v and/or -x option in those helps you to find out where and how the errors occur.whereis grep, ... man, ...emacs to verify they exist. And, seeing you had a major "disk repair", are you sure your directory srtucture is intact? Try an ls /bin or ls /usr/bin to see what is there.
whereis grep, ... man, ...emacs gives me nothing, just returns me to the regular prompt.
ls /bin gives me:
[ dd kill mv sh wait4path
bash df ksh pax sleep zsh
cat domainname launchctl ps stty
chmod echo link pwd sync
cp ed ln rcp tcsh
csh expr ls rm test
date hostname mkdir rmdir unlink
and ls /usr/bin gives me:
2to3 defaults spfquery5.10.0
2to32.6 desdp spfquery5.8.9
BuildStrings diff splain
CpMac diff3 splain5.10.0
DeRez diffpp splain5.8.9
SetFile diffstat split
SplitForks dig sqlite3
UnRezWack dirname srm
WSMakeStubs diskhits ssh
a2p dispqlen.d ssh-add
a2p5.10.0 distcc ssh-agent
a2p5.8.9 distccd ssh-keygen
aaf_install distccmon-text ssh-keyscan
aclocal ditto stat
aclocal-1.10 dns-sd states
addftinfo dprofpp strings
afconvert dprofpp5.10.0 strip
afinfo dprofpp5.8.9 su
afmtodit drutil sudo
afplay dscacheutil sum
afscexpand dscl svk
agvtool dserr svn
alias dsexport svnadmin
allmemory dsimport svndumpfilter
amavisd dsmemberutil svnlook
amavisd-agent dsperfmonitor svnserve
amavisd-nanny dsymutil svnsync
amavisd-release dtruss svnversion
amlint du sw_vers
ant dwarfdump swig
applesingle dyldinfo syscallbypid.d
appletviewer easy_install syscallbyproc.d
apply easy_install-2.5 syscallbysysc.d
apr-1-config easy_install-2.6 syslog
apropos efax tab2space
apt efix tabs
apu-1-config iotop tail
ar ipcount talk
arch ipcount5.10.0 tar
as ipcount5.8.9 tbl
asa ipcrm tclsh
at ipcs tclsh8.4
atos iptab tclsh8.5
atq iptab5.10.0 tconf
atrm iptab5.8.9 tdbbackup
atsutil irb tdbdump
autoconf isc-config.sh tdbtool
autoheader jar tee
autom4te jarsigner telnet
automake java testparm
automake-1.10 javac testrb
automator javaconfig texi2dvi
autoreconf javadoc texi2html
autoscan javah texi2pdf
autoupdate javap texindex
auval javatool textutil
auvaltool javaws tfmtodit
awk jcmd tftp
banner jconsole tic
basename jdb tidy
bashbug jhat tiff2icns
batch jinfo tiffutil
bc jmap time
bg jobs tkcon
biff join tkmib
binhex jot tnameserv
bison jps toe
bitesize.d jrunscript top
bsdmake jsadebugd tops
bsdtar jstack topsyscall
bspatch jstat topsysproc
bunzip2 jstatd touch
bzcat jvisualvm tput
bzcmp kdestroy tr
bzdiff kextutil traptoemail
bzegrep keytool trial
bzfgrep kill.d troff
bzgrep killall true
bzip2 kinit tset
bzip2recover klist tsort
bzless kpasswd tty
bzmore krb5-config twistd
c++ kswitch type
c++-4.0 kvno ul
c++-4.2 lam ulimit
c++filt last umask
c2ph lastcomm unalias
c2ph5.10.0 lastwords uname
c2ph5.8.9 latency uncompress
c89 ld unexpand
c99 ld_classic unifdef
c_rehash ldapadd unifdefall
cal ldapcompare uniq
calendar ldapdelete units
cancel ldapexop unpack200
cap ldapmodify unvis
cap_mkdb perl5.10.0 unwinddump
capify perl5.8.9 unzip
captoinfo perlbug unzipsfx
cc perlbug5.10.0 update_dyld_shared_cache
cd perlbug5.8.9 uptime
certtool perlcc users
checknr perlcc5.8.9 uucp
chflags perldoc uudecode
chfn perldoc5.10.0 uuencode
chgrp perldoc5.8.9 uuidgen
chpass perlivp uulog
chsh perlivp5.10.0 uuname
chudRemoteCtrl perlivp5.8.9 uupick
chumAddRights perlthanks uustat
ci perlthanks5.8.9 uuto
cksum sample uux
clang sampleproc vers_string
clear sandbox-exec vgrind
cmp sandbox-simplify vi
cmpdylib sar view
co say vim
codesign sc_usage vimdiff
codesign_allocate schemagen vimtutor
col scp vis
colcrt screen vm_stat
colldef script vmmap
colrm sdef w
column sdiff wait
comm sdp wall
command security wbinfo
compileHelp sed wc
compile_et seeksize.d weblatency.d
compress segedit what
config serialver whatis
config_data servertool whereis
config_data5.10.0 setregion which
config_data5.8.9 setuids.d who
corelist sftp whoami
corelist5.10.0 shar whois
corelist5.8.9 shark wish
cpan shasum wish8.4
cpan2dist shasum5.10.0 wish8.5
cpan2dist5.10.0 shlock write
cpan5.10.0 showmount wsgen
cpan5.8.9 sigdist.d wsimport
cpanp sips wx-config
cpanp-run-perl size wxPerl
cpanp-run-perl5.10.0 sliceprint wxPerl5.10.0
cpanp5.10.0 slogin wxPerl5.8.9
cpio smbcacls wxperl_demo.pl
cpp smbclient wxperl_demo5.10.0.pl
cpp-4.0 smbcontrol wxperl_demo5.8.9.pl
cpp-4.2 smbcquotas wxperl_overload
cpuwalk.d smbget wxperl_overload5.10.0
crc32 smbpasswd wxperl_overload5.8.9
crc325.10.0 smbspool wxperl_xspp
crc325.8.9 smbstatus wxperl_xspp5.10.0
creatbyproc.d smbtar wxperl_xspp5.8.9
crlrefresh smbtree wxrc
crontab smbutil wxrc-2.8
csplit smtpd.py xar
csreq smtpd2.5.py xargs
ctags smtpd2.6.py xattr
ctf_insert snmpbulkget xattr-2.5
cu snmpbulkwalk xattr-2.6
cups-calibrate snmpconf xcman
cups-config snmpdelta xcode-select
cupstestdsc snmpdf xcodebuild
cupstestppd snmpget xcodeindex
curl snmpgetnext xcrun
curl-config snmpinform xed
cut snmpnetstat xgettext.pl
cvs snmpset xgettext5.10.0.pl
cvsbug snmpstatus xgettext5.8.9.pl
dappprof snmptable xgrid
dapptrace snmptest xjc
db_codegen snmptranslate xml2-config
db_hotbackup snmptrap xml2man
dbilogstrip snmpusm xmlcatalog
dbilogstrip5.10.0 snmpvacm xmllint
dbilogstrip5.8.9 snmpwalk xmlwf
dbiprof sntp xpath
dbiprof5.10.0 soelim xpath5.10.0
dbiprof5.8.9 sort xpath5.8.9
dbiproxy spfd xslt-config
dbiproxy5.10.0 spfd5.10.0 xsltproc
dbiproxy5.8.9 spfd5.8.9 xsubpp
dc spfquery xsubpp5.10.0
RudiC
August 27, 2012, 5:19am
8
I hope you did not run whereis grep, ... man, ...emacs as one single command. Run
whereis man; whereis grep; whereis emacs
What puzzles me is that in your above listing there are NO commands starting with f, g, n, and o. This is a bit strange. Can you find commands like e.g. mount, mkdir, more on your system?
I ran them separately.
mount, mkdir are there but more is not.
xbin
August 27, 2012, 2:29pm
10
You are missing multiple binary files in /usr/bin/. I would back up your user data and your fink installation. If you have compiled anything in /usr/local/ then backup /usr/local/. Run fsck_hfs like this for a live verification of the file system.
diskutil verifyVolume /
If the file system is clean then you will have re-install over your present installation.