Airgg! Found the problem. What 'xfs' was trying to tell us is that it couldn't write files into /tmp, because /tmp had been re-created with the wrong permissions. If an 'xfs' friendly hacker happens to read this, it would be really cool if a patch popped up that gives better hints about what's going on. ;-) Thanks to everyone for your help! -- Zacharias J. Beckman - zbeckman@creativesun.com - (U.S.) 305-281-8701 Creative Sun Inc., Publishing for the Internet - http://www.creativesun.com Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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