On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 06:18:38PM +0200, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, 11 May 2007 18:12:03 -0700 Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:30:32PM +0200, Francesco Poli > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > $ aptitude search xserver-xorg > > > > What happens if you run this command as root? > > Mmmmh, strange: it seems to show the 'A' characters when run as root, > but it fails to show them when run as regular user. It's strange, > because the sarge version of aptitude used to show the 'A' characters no > matter which user was running it (I've just rechecked...).
It's especially strange since it doesn't do that anywhere else. If you run aptitude with no arguments, do you get any error messages? I can reproduce your behavior if I remove read permissions for myself on /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates, but then I get an error on startup (non-fatal errors are suppressed in "search"). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
