The problem was not at all what I suspected. It was only from debugging other problems (such as all cron jobs failing with 'permission denied') that I fixed it. I had a bad line in /etc/pam.d/common-account for pam_krb5.so. Instead of just 'sufficient' it was ' [default=bad success=ok user_unknown=i...

I am currently running the 1.1.9 package on my debian box, but wanted to try out the 1.2.0 RC. I successfully built this on my ubuntu machine, but on the debian machine it fails with this: running build_scripts error: cannot copy tree 'build/scripts-2.5': not a directory I dug into this a little and...

When you install boost from macports, you need to install it with the +python25 argument. "port install boost +python25"

since it's already installed, you want to deactivate it first: "port deactivate boost"