On Sun, 16 May 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > But you might have some success if you install the gnome-stage-slink > > packages and the newest apt before compiling. > > And it doesn't work anything better with the staging Gnome. >
Well, at least it compiles. :-) > Torsten has gotton it to work but it crashes, iirc. > For me, the next-to-latest potato .deb crashed after downloading packages but before spawning dpkg; the very latest potato .deb instantly segfaults when it tries to access the package cache (if you run it as non-root, the Gnome part successfully pops up an error dialog and exits cleanly; so I suspect it's dying in libapt-pkg). I think both of these are some kind of library problem. I've been having lots of instability with potato. I don't have a slink system to try it on; if you can send me a backtrace, I can at least determine if it's nonsense likely to be caused by screwy library mismatches, or a reasonable gnome-apt bug. Nothing has actually changed about gnome-apt in months, and it definitely did work a few months ago, so whatever is wrong is most likely a library issue (or simple bit rot...) I can look at it in detail in a couple weeks; until then, insight is welcome. Thanks, Havoc
