> In truth I don't know what the problem is. The only thing that > strikes me as peculiar is that /bin/cat is linked against > libnfslockfile or some such, while cat on my debian pc is not (but > then I don't have the same packages on that machine). Perhaps there's > a bug in nfslockfile? You have libnfslockfile.so in /lib installed? Short test: rename it or move it, run ldconfig and test cat. Hope it helps, Hartmut