Hi Anthony (and everyone else):
I ran into a minor glitch (I saw this before, but it went away with your
latest fix). I don't know exactly why it went from working to not
working, but I found out what it was doing wrong.
Lazarus was working fine through multiple re-boots, running as root
In "Tools > Options" check that "Environment > Compiler Executable" points
to the full fpc path. Also make sure you launch Lazarus using
"lazarus.desktop" file and you're not just double clicking on the lazarus
executable file in the lazarus folder. Use "ls" in a terminal to see the
actual file