On 31 Mar 2001 12:24:02 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote: > > I can't run fortune anymore: (...) > > 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.
Sigh, you were right about EACCES, and it seems I have a filesystem inconsisteny in my (reiserfs) /usr I conclude this from this output I get even when I'm root (but please correct me if I'm wrong): sonic:~# ls /usr/share/games/fortunes/ ls: /usr/share/games/fortunes/miscellaneous.dat: Permission denied ls: /usr/share/games/fortunes/men-women: Permission denied art definitions.dat fortunes law.dat medicine art.dat drugs fortunes.dat linuxcookie medicine.dat ascii-art drugs.dat goedel linuxcookie.dat men-women.dat ascii-art.dat education goedel.dat literature miscellaneous computers education.dat humorists literature.dat riddles computers.dat ethnic humorists.dat love riddles.dat cookie ethnic.dat kids love.dat cookie.dat food kids.dat magic definitions food.dat law magic.dat sonic:~# Also, reiserfsck -x (on umounted /usr) segfaults with a rather cryptic error message about some unexpected filesystem-internal value Well, seems I need to learn something about reiserfs and do a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree (shiver :) Thanks and kind regards, M. -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
