Hi. [Sorry for starting a new thread (I deleted the wrong copy of the mail).]
> > It would be interesting to see an strace of, e.g., ls trying to run > as a broken user. You might have to get a statically linked strace > to do this, though :-(. > > One thing you could try would be something like this as root: > > strace -o /tmp/ls.strace -f su - "Broken" -c ls > > and then send ls.strace here. > # strace -o ls.strace -f su - eran -c ls umovestr: Input/output error PostBox bookmarks dl lestat-home mail mozilla.ps perso system tmp video bin devel doc lib man music public_html templates tricks web Oh, there is an "Input/output error" there... Anyway here attached is the the strace output. Thanks, Gilles
ls.strace.gz
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