[julia-users] cannot open files in julia on Fedora 22

[Stephan Buchert]

Since today julia refuses to open files for me:

[scb@stride swarm]$ julia -f
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "help()" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.3.11
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  
|__/                   |  x86_64-redhat-linux

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.3.11
Platform Info:
  System: Linux (x86_64-redhat-linux)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
  LAPACK: libopenblasp.so.0
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.5.0

julia> f=open("$(homedir())/.juliarc.jl")

julia> f
ERROR: f not defined

julia> f=Base.open("$(homedir())/.juliarc.jl")

julia> f
ERROR: f not defined

julia> f=open("doesnotexist")

julia> f
ERROR: f not defined

julia> f=stat("$(homedir())/.juliarc.jl")

julia> f
ERROR: f not defined

but

julia> readdir()
44-element Array{Union(ASCIIString,UTF8String),1}:
 "calval"
....

Erasing the Fedora julia packages and reinstalling them didn't help, 
neither does rebooting the system. Otherwise my updated Fedora 22 works 
fine. Any idea what is going on?

Thanks,
Stephan