Mario Vukelic wrote: > I can't run fortune anymore: It's been like that for some weeks in > woody, but I guess it's happened only to me, since there are no > references to "juju" in the mailing list archive. If I run fortune on > the cmd line, I get the error given in this mail's subject, which isn't > very verbose. It does't matter if I run as root or regular user. > > Thanks for hints
Well according to the source this means that a stat() of some file did not return true, and the errno was not ENOENT or ENOTDIR. stat(2) lists some other possible error codes including ELOOP, EFAULT, EACCES, ENOMEM, and ENAMETOOLONG. I'm betting it's EACCES -- some sort of local permissions problem on your system. Stracing fortune and looking for the return code of the stat() call would probably pinpoint your particular problem. -- see shy jo
