It is odd that you mailed to bug-fileutils, even though you are using
coreutils 5.94. That mailing list is obsolete; it is now the bug-coreutils
mailing list.
> Alright, I've been using Debian for ages, and never ran across something
> like this. It makes me wonder if it is affecting other progra
Alright, I've been using Debian for ages, and never ran across something
like this. It makes me wonder if it is affecting other programs on the
system as well. I installed GCC tonight and in the process it had to
upgrade libc6. It upgraded properly, and when it finished I rebooted the
machine ju