Re: What is wrong with kde2.1 and unstable ?

2001-01-08 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: no clue...I don't use apt to upgrade. :) Your not alone tho, there is a existing bug report on this (#81365)...so any help you can give me to track down what's going on would be appreciated. On all the boxes I have access to I use dselect to manage my package

Re: New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-13 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
David Starner wrote: I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check, checkmp3, or all the above? AFAIK,

OT Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-09-05 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:19:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:54:25AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Um, why send such a message to a widely-read mailing-list? As a joke... Im damned curious.. what did

Re: OT Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-09-05 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Michael Beattie wrote: It was meant as a joke... so go ahead :) That's why I did not really complain about it ;-) Im not sure why he encrypted to you though. Yeah, I also thought that you should have received this ;-)) (because you asked for it, that is) Ulf

why can't mc open /dev/gpmctl?

2000-09-01 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, found something like this in my logs for every start of mc: Sep 1 12:13:48 pkfp20 mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory I wonder why. Maybe a bug in mc? In fact, /dev/gpmctl exists: srwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Sep 1 12:16 gpmctl= The '=' is an indication of the

Re: why can't mc open /dev/gpmctl?

2000-09-01 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Martijn van de Streek wrote: Sep 1 12:13:48 pkfp20 mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory I wonder why. Maybe a bug in mc? In fact, /dev/gpmctl exists: I got these too, with both mc and links. I guess it's a libgpm0-bug. Installing (and running) gpm fixed it

Re: Found the problem: was Re: Help

2000-08-30 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Dale Scheetz wrote: /usr/local/bin/pine not found If I explicitly call /usr/bin/pine it works just fine. I just checked on another user login, and no problems. This must be a bash command caching artifact. I guess logging out will fix it... hash -r would do it too. Ulf

Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Anton Ivanov wrote: If you are right at least apache scripts are not. I suggest you file a bug against it. If you know how to call apache scripts to demonstrate the error then please file the bug yourself. Check before, if you run an up-to-date apache. apache starts up correctly

Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Anton Ivanov wrote: apache starts up correctly for me on every system boot, and I do have /bin/sh pointing to /bin/ash as well. My fault. It actually uses #!/bin/bash which it should not anyway Well, #!/bin/bash scripts are allowed to use bashisms :) Ulf

dwww: cat and file (pipe race condition)

2000-03-30 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, I'm reading my system documentation with dwww. However, with current potato/woody versions of dwww and file I have trouble for some files (i.e the web server hangs and reports a timeout) Examples for bad files are

is it time for /usr/share/doc?

1999-09-24 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, I noticed that more and more packages move their doc files to /usr/share/doc, leaving all kinds of problems with the old one, e.g. empty directories, broken links, directories with only one file, ... Did I miss the final say on this? Where was it announced? And should I do this for my

Re: is it time for /usr/share/doc?

1999-09-24 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Joey Hess wrote: I noticed that more and more packages move their doc files to /usr/share/doc, leaving all kinds of problems with the old one, e.g. empty directories, broken links, directories with only one file, ... File bug reports for all of these things. Any packages exhibiting

procps

1998-01-08 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, where should 'ps' reside, according to the standard? In the latest version it moved from /bin/ps to /usr/bin/ps. Thanks, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

gnuchess gnuchess-book

1998-01-06 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, just recently I installed gnuchess-book and gnuchess. I used something like 'dpkg -i gnuchess-book_* gnuchess_*'. When the packages were configured I got the message: 'note the disappearence of gnuchess-book, which has been completely replaced'. In fact, there's no sign of gnuchess-book

update-alternatives --auto vi

1997-12-11 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hello, I installed the latest version of elvis and noticed, that nvi is no longer the default vi (which is set up by update-alternatives --auto vi). Instead, elvisnox is the current default. Is this correct or is it a bug? Where can I read about alternative packages (and especially which

dpkg-source problem

1997-12-05 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hello, when I use dpkg-source on an unchanged source tree it complains about unrepresentable changes. dpkg-buildpackage exits with an error code. Is this a bug or a feature? How can I circumvent it? Thanks, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail