Joost Kremers blithely blithered
> Handover Phist wrote:
>> Very strange one indeed, this one! And tracked down to the symlink
>> between /bin/sh and /bin/bash. I replaced it with sh -> bash as opposed
>> to sh -> /bin/bash
>>
>> ln -s bash sh
>
> this makes me ask myself two things: what would have happened if you had
> recreated the symlink as it was, i.e., `ln -s /bin/bash sh'? and how
> are your other symlinks functioning?

Everything seems to be functioning as expected. Hydrogen is creating
beats, gimp is makin pretty pictures, and Firefox is Firefoxing. Life is
good with the machine back to normal so I think I'll forget about it for
now and get drunk.

Only 5 more hours until after work!

> oh, and another thing: how on earth did you figure this one out? or was it
> just a lucky guess?

A bit of both.

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bug, n:
A son of a glitch.