Comment 7 for bug 385704

Ahh!

Yes: /usr and /tmp are symlinks on my system because ... I forget the specifics but in my initial install and partitioning I'd put them on a separate partition from / and that was causing trouble for Ubuntu. (My best writeup of that is here: http://velociraptor.info/notes/?p=307) /etc isn't though.

Output of strace:

$ strace -e trace=file tomboy &> trace.out && grep "/config\"" trace.out
open("/mnt/vartemp/usr/etc/mono/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/amanda/.mono/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
open("/etc/selinux/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)