[TxMt] Re: mate command broken after security update 2008-005

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On 2008-08-04, at 12:40, Tony Crockford wrote:

>> in the interests of science I typed mate . in a newly opened terminal
>> window - TM started, but went unresponsive - I force quit it and got
>> this in the terminal window:
>
> Update.
>
> I re-created the symbolic link (from the help menu)
>
> mate . works fine (in a sensible directory) but still goes
> unresponsive if I invoke it at /~ (which is probably a daft idea!)

I confirm. The same here. Daft or not daft, this is not The Right  
Thing to react so on daft ideas of the user ;-)

The question: did it really begin only after the the latest SU or was  
it there unnoticed in the past?

P.