Ahh! Yes: /usr and /tmp are symlinks on my system because ... I forget the specifics but in my initial install and partitioning I'd put them on a separate partition from / and that was causing trouble for Ubuntu. (My best writeup of that is here: http://velociraptor.info/notes/?p=307) /etc isn't though.
Output of strace: $ strace -e trace=file tomboy &> trace.out && grep "/config\"" trace.out open("/mnt/vartemp/usr/etc/mono/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/amanda/.mono/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 open("/etc/selinux/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) -- "failed to load applet OAFIID:TomboyApplet" After Upgrade to 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385704 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs