now that i'm halfway through completely butchering my debian linux, several (some, not all) programs won't run, period, saying Could not execv /your/luck/has/expired/today i presume it's referring to newly-installed programs hither and yon. it certainly happens for most of the (new) binary postgres files.
1) what does that mean? that's a symptom of... what? do i just need another simple piece for the puzzle (simple, as in postgresql...)? 2) how can i fix it? 3) any chance i can restart linux, or am i stuck with a memory-resident, orphaned set of software? i.e. is the rest of the system still competent, or am i totally screwed? # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free # uname -a Linux server 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown [i tried apt-get upgrade, which wouldn't willingly proceed all the way through... if i could find a way to move beyond 'willing' into 'forced' it'd make my day.] i also have dozens and dozens of dangling symlinks in the /usr/man directory tree now.