Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > This doesn't look as if your system is anywhere near to a functional state. > Something was hosed up seriously. You can not expect anything to work if > getcwd doesn't. > > Alas, I have never seen such misbehaving. I suggest you reinstall from > scratch, on a clean filesystem, and watch out for problems in an earlier > stage.
I reinstalled from scratch, and was able to build bzip2 (as per Jeff's recommendation) just fine after installing the necessary packages. It is possible that I caused some breakage when trying to undo the damage done by the usr -> . symlink in the tarball, and putting user on it's own filesystem (parsing out packages from dpkg -S /usr/lib/\* and mv-ing them to /usr/ which is another partition), or perhaps when I tried out the ftpfs translator without knowing what I was really doing. I think I saw the "Gratuitous error" the first time when trying to change into the ftpfs directory (which of course did not work :), and afterwards, I was not able to make the translator --goaway. How _do_ you remove a stuck translator with an unkillable storeio? Anyway, now I can try compiling me some non-US.. Oystein -- ssh -c rot13 otherhost
