Making some progress. Starting with a fresh merovingian process, I did an "strace -fe file,process -p PID] on it. "monetdb create test" did nothing, but "start test" shows it opens the dbfarm directory, and mal_init.mal, but then fails to find any of the MonetDB5 .sos [excriciating scroll included below] because only the .a and .la files got installed there. The build tree is also stripped of .sos. [root@mork MonetDBFast]# ls lib/MonetDB5/lib lib_aggr.a lib_batifthen.la lib_clients.a lib_inet.la lib_mal_scheduler.a lib_pqueue.la lib_streams.la lib_aggr.la lib_batmath.a lib_clients.la lib_inspect.a lib_mal_scheduler.la lib_profiler.a lib_str.la [...] and then gets this for a segfault: [pid 9810] rename("bat/BBP.dir", "bat/BACKUP/BBP.dir") = 0 [pid 9810] open("/usr/local/MonetDBFast/lib/MonetDB5/mal_init.mal", O_RDONLY) = 15 [pid 9810] open("/usr/local/MonetDBFast/lib/MonetDB5/mal_init.mal", O_RDONLY) = 15 [pid 9810] open("/usr/local [...] [pid 9810] open("/usr/local/MonetDBFast/lib/MonetDB5/bin/lib_blob.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 9810] open("/usr/local/MonetDBFast/lib/MonetDB5/blob.mal", O_RDONLY) = 16 [pid 9810] open("/usr/local/MonetDBFast/lib/MonetDB5/blob.mal", O_RDONLY) = 16 [pid 9810] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- Process 9810 detached [pid 9811] +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ [pid 9800] --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 9800] wait4(-1, Process 9800 suspended Denham Quantitative Management LP 200 Clarendon Street, 25th Floor Boston, MA 02216 T: 617-587-5812 M: 617-909-7786 omri.schwarz@denhamcapital.com NOTICE: This e-mail message is intended for the named recipient(s) above and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY IS MADE TO ANY PERSON AS TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN. Denham Capital Management(sm) is a trademark of Denham Capital Management LP.