The problem is that I am logged in as root. I noticed the problem while trying to upgrade fro midnight commander 4.1 to 4.5. There a symlinks in the /usr/lib/mc directory that will not delete that cause my upgrade to fail. also these link have disable certain functions in mc. I can't install .deb's this with mc anymore. Other broken link cause seg faults all over the place. I can't use dselect either is another problem that comes to mind. I've tried to chmod 666 and chown but nothing is working. My /usr/lost+found has -300k of broken links and files. I have even tried dpkg --purge and nothing!
Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer ever to be seen' -Entombed 'Contempt'