Great debugging, and an example of the sort of behaviour that long dependency chains can expose.
Or rather, I did until this week, when it suddenly stopped working.
When this happens to me, the first thing that I ask myself is "what changed?", and I'm usually able to track down the cause to some configuration change. Incidentally, this is also why I never like modifying a working system unless it's absolutely necessary.
The fact that it ultimately was caused by some security features that would be very important for a multiuser shared server but nearly irrelevant for the (presumably) single-user local machine that he is using suggests that perhaps we shouldn't be thinking of "one size fits all" paradigm for OSs, since a lot of problems like this one stem from the unnecessary extra complexity introduced by such thinking.
Or rather, I did until this week, when it suddenly stopped working.
When this happens to me, the first thing that I ask myself is "what changed?", and I'm usually able to track down the cause to some configuration change. Incidentally, this is also why I never like modifying a working system unless it's absolutely necessary.
The fact that it ultimately was caused by some security features that would be very important for a multiuser shared server but nearly irrelevant for the (presumably) single-user local machine that he is using suggests that perhaps we shouldn't be thinking of "one size fits all" paradigm for OSs, since a lot of problems like this one stem from the unnecessary extra complexity introduced by such thinking.