And the actual problem with virtualbox, alsaplayer, gxine, and presumably more programs I hadn't found yet was:
Somehow, at some point in the past, a bunch of opengl-related files landed in my /usr/lib (only on the machine where things were failing, of course): snowball:511$ ls /usr/lib/libGL* /usr/lib/libGL.la /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1@ /usr/lib/libGL.so.1@ /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.9639* /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.9639* I've got no idea where they came from: snowball:512$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libGL* dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGL.la. dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGL.so.1. dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.9639. dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1. dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.9639. I deleted them all, and things are now working. I'd still be curious to find a way to re-enable suid with ptrace when necessary.... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1b62gcr4x4....@pfeifferfamily.net