Hi Jessica, thanks for the quick response.
> My initial suggestion would be to capture what system call is being > used using strace. Pick one of the files that changes, and run the Good idea indeed. We will try to reproduce the failure under strace, and hope to see something in the log. Thanks Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + IFMGA ProGuide + TU Wien + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Dev GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13