Bionicpup32 will not shut down after upgrades (solved)

[galen]

I've have had this serious bug happen several times after upgrading packages on bionicpup32.
after upgrading some puppy packages the system will not shutdown.
this is due to
interpreter not found
/bin/ash
somewhere in the install/upgrade path
something changes the shell to /bin/ash instead of bash

to get your system to shutdown / reboot
open terminal
cd /bin
cp bash ash

the packages added are pidgin, clonezilla,
seamonkey or palemoon

[williams2]

ash should be a symlink to busybox

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cd /bin
ln -fs busybox ash

sh should be a symlink to bash

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cd /bin
ln -fs bash sh

The default shell that a urxvt terminal uses is set in /etc/profile

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SHELL="/bin/bash"

SHELL should probably be /bin/sh but SHELL=/bin/bash executes .bashrc when bash starts.

The shell that a shell script uses is set by the first line of the script.

Is the /bin/ash symlink to busybox getting changed?

[galen]

I found my error
Had installed puppy to fat32 USB stick