Installation of Jessie 1.0.1 AMD64 went well. I did not install desktop
packages during install, but instead xorg afterwards along with a lot of
other packages.

I went to starx:

/usr/bin/mcookie: not found
Couldn't create cookie

$ ls /usr/bin/ | grep mcookie
mcookie

$ echo $PATH
.../usr/bin:..

I rebooted, and now I can't run any executable. For example,

$ aptitude search xorg
-bash: /usr/bin/aptitude: No such file or directory

No idea what happened. The executables are in PATH. The syslog no longer
being written.

Haines Brown