After recent updates various daemons refused to start in a boot sequence. That included hald and that means that various other things were really unhappy too as they depend on it. A prolonged head scratching and search eventually revealed that _something_, and I have no idea what, changed permissions on /etc and /boot from 0755 to 0700. A modification on /boot is likely not that important but with /etc that means that anything which tried to get some information from there while not running as 'root' was not going too far. Restoring orignal permits really helped and now all services are starting like expected. Did anybody see something like that and have some clues about what really happened here? Surely I was NOT modifying those permits myself. BTW - gdb appears to be seriously broken. At least on x86_64. Is this known? It does not return to "(gdb)" prompt at breakpoints, until explicitily interrupted, every stepping command caused only "Cannot find bounds of current function" message and gud mode in emacs, probably because the above, does not show any sources anymore or much else of anything for that matter. I cannot check what bugzilla has to say about this as attempts to search for "gdb" in a simple search are bringing only "You are not authorized to access bug #106167." in big letters on a red background and "advanced search" appears to be completely shot for a change and displays only Bugzilla components - no matter what. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list