-lstat("/root/.trinity/share/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 -lstat("/opt", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 -lstat("/opt/trinity", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 -lstat("/opt/trinity/share", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 -lstat("/opt/trinity/share/config", 0x7fffb06eb230) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) -access("/opt/trinity/share/config", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) -stat("/root/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=7834, ...}) = 0 -stat("/etc/trinity/kdeglobals", 0x7fffb06ec1f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) +lstat("/root/.trinity", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0 +lstat("/root/.trinity/share", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0 +lstat("/root/.trinity/share/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=3072, ...}) = 0 +lstat("/opt", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0 +lstat("/opt/trinity", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0 +lstat("/opt/trinity/share", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0 +lstat("/opt/trinity/share/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0 +access("/opt/trinity/share/config", F_OK) = 0 +lstat("/opt/trinity/share/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0 +stat("/root/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=8624, ...}) = 0 +stat("/etc/trinity/kdeglobals", 0x7fff19101420) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) +stat("/opt/trinity/share/config/kdeglobals", 0x7fff19101420) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/etc/tderc", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) -stat("/root/.trinity/share/config/system.kdeglobals", 0x7fffb06ec1f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) -stat("/etc/trinity/system.kdeglobals", 0x7fffb06ec1f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) +stat("/root/.trinity/share/config/system.kdeglobals", 0x7fff19101420) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) +stat("/etc/trinity/system.kdeglobals", 0x7fff19101420) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) +stat("/opt/trinity/share/config/system.kdeglobals", 0x7fff19101420) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/root/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals", O_RDONLY) = 11 seventh major difference: the 2nd system is looking for and finds a /opt/trinity/share/config directory... the first does not have that directory (line 5 of the above): -lstat("/opt/trinity/share/config", 0x7fffb06eb230) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) how were each of these systems created? they're clearly not the same. i'd strongly suggest doing a dpkg -L on each (or dpkg-get-selections), a find / (with excluding of /dev, /proc etc - see updatedb's cron job for an example) on each and then do a diff on those. l. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting