Comment 16 for bug 588203

There seems to be a problem with the latest builds: I can't run aptitude from inside eshell. It complains about not finding ldconfig, start-stop-daemon, etc:

17:25 :: ~ $ apti bzr-fastimport
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bzr-fastimport
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/99.0kB of archives. After unpacking 610kB will be used.
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: 2 expected program(s) not found in PATH or not executable.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: 2 expected program(s) not found in PATH or not executable.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.

I used to get the same error when I was using the emacs cvs snapshot versions for Debian by Romain Francoise.