Bad NiosII installation

I think I have a bad install of my NIOSII Ide (v1.1) but an uninstall and a new install don't fix the problem.

I can run/debug on another PC just fine and nios2-run of an srec created from my .elf works fine on the problem system.

I can download a .sof via my RevB USB Blaster just fine.

This is a multi-fpga board that has worked fine in the past.

The error occurs when I initiate a run via the IDE of a .elf file.

The IDE displays the following errors which look like it is trying to call nios2-download/nios2-gdb-server and not finding the right file. Anyone seen this or have any suggestions?

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nios2-elf-objcopy: Warning: '/' is not an ordinary file

/.srec: Unable to open input file

rm: cannot remove `/.srec': No such file or directory

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