On 10/31/2018 09:18 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2018-10-31, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:Debian 9.1 with MATE installed from DVD set. Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable was over written by the contents of a man page in pure text format. For unknown reason, the resulting file was tagged as executable.I want to predict immediately that this can of worms will produce the longest thread in the history of debian user.
ONLY if members of this group can't or wont read. I believe I rigorously complied with [http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
A custom MATE launcher pointed the corrupted file. When the launcher icon was clicked there was no response whatsoever. Including *NO ERROR MESSAGE* Is this a bug or a feature? If a feature, why?