Re: teTeX kind of broken
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool", > > etc. > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the > replaces. Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect [R]emove packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them" would work, but a bit more descriptive/less cryptic. Also, isn't there a workaround for the latex bug? I wouldn't like to see that question either, considering THERE IS a known solution. Marcelo
Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Riku Voipio wrote: > Here at debian, we have joined the fun, and you can join in too. This may sound silly, but why doesn't someone package this thing (both US and non-US) with a nice description of what it is, how can the whole community beneffit from such an effort, etc, and the proper scripts/setup in /etc/init.d/ to start running the client as soon as the machine is up, as well as the cronjon described in other post on this subject? BTW, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was #10 the last time I checked! Keep adding hosts!!! -Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg troubles, again
Hi, Regarding my previous message, I kind of solved it. I "rm -r linux" and started again. Now the error I'm getting is: --- cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage \ debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27 cp vmlinux debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.27 cp System.map debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.27 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27 \ debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.27 \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.27 dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.27 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek make: *** [stamp-image] Error 29 Does anyone have any ideas on this subject? I have kernel-package 3.03, dpkg-dev 1.4.0.3, cpio 2.4.2-8... TIA, Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Randy Gobbel wrote: > Yes, I would say it's a bug in the Debian version of libc 5.4.7. Some > functions have been moved from the C library to the compiler, and > applications compiled with older versions of gcc need help to work with > libc 5.4.7. I stumbled across a fix for the problem at > > http://nightflight.com/~pcg/medkit.html I'm having a lot of trouble with Netscape 3.0[1b], it exits randomly... at first I thought the problem was related to Java, but I found a Java-less page where Netscape 3.0 exited. Using 3.01b on page with Java applets (www.download.com, for example) makes it exit as soon as the Applet starts to run. I have libc 5.4.7 installed, and if I use medkit I get the message "Bus Error" (I have a 486, not a Pentium). If I downgrade to the stable version of libc (5.2.?) Netscape works fine... Trouble is my kernel and everything else here is compiled against something newer than 5.2.x, but my users are complaining a lot about Netscape not working... Any more ideas? Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with JED+X
Hi, I just installed the newest jed package, and it won't start under X... it says "terminal not powerful enough for Slang". Is there a way to make jed and/or slsc under X? -Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IOmega Jaz drive
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Jean Orloff wrote: > I just installed Debian ON a 1Gb IOmega Jaz driver: it gets recognized at the > bios level, just when you insert the root/boot disks! The resulting system is > of course not too fast, but enough to get a feeling, without any worry for > other installed systems. I'm considering getting a Jaz drive and I'd like to install Debian on it. I want just a little bit more that "get a feeling"... I know what Debian can do and I like it! So, exactly what do you mean by "not too fast". I've never seen a Jaz drive working, they are a rarity down here, but from what I've read they are pretty close to "normal HD performance" (this comes from PC Magazine, PC Week and others)... any comments? -Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with xdm
Hi,
I have just installed a minimal set of packages in order to run
X11. Everything works fine: if I use startx I get X up and running (with
twm as WM... how do I change that? I'd like to have fvwm2 as the
default WM for all my users), and it works with xinit, too. But if I run
xdm (from a root shell), it seems to start, but the login console never
shows up. Any pointers, please?
Thanks,
Marcelo Magallon
RE: texbin postinst in unstable fails
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "texbin" fails to configure because version mfbasfnt-1.0-5 is missing the > file manfnt.mf (a special font for something in Knuth's book). Downgrading to > mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from "buzz-fixed" overcomes the problem I ran into this, too, and the program that complained about this (Metafont?) started logging errors, which turned into a 72 MB log file... I wish I had written down the filenames and stuff, but I haven't. :( I can reproduce it, I think. I just have to "configure" Babel. -Marcelo
make-kpkg
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I missed it.
I'm having a little trouble with the kernel-package package. Everything's
ok, I can build kernel-*.deb, but when I install kernel-image-whatever, I
get an error stating that there was a problem building /boot/psdatabase.
After that everything goes ok, and the kernel boots ok, but I'm wondering
what is this file.
After installing my kernel-image I find /etc/psdatabase, which I copy to
/boot/ as psdatabase-{version}, and I symlink /boot/psdatabase to it, but
this symlink is already there anyway.
Ideas? I use kernel-package 2.02
TIA,
Marcelo Magallon
4 Meg memory *Cyrex* machine
> My test-bed for the 1.1 install is a slow 386 with 4MB + 640K . This > machine has Linux installed on it several times a week :-) . The RAM > disk implementation in the new kernels uses less memory (it used to > have a RAM cache of the RAM disk). The installation tools on 1.1 also > use less RAM than before. If you are concerned about low memory, make > your swap partition and activate it right away. That's why this step is > first in the 1.1 installation menu. Now that's funny. At first I understood it was possible to install Debian on a 4 MB system, and when a classmate here asked me to help him installing Debian on his 4 MB Cyrex (sp?) 486-80 I said "sure, no problem", but the installation didn't complete. When asked to swap disks (boot->root), I prints "Running sh" or something like that, and hangs. It complains about a "low memory condition" and I thought that was the problem, but know I have doubts. We tried several times... my classmate gave up, I gave up... Here are some details about the situation: o 486-80 by Cyrex (again, sp?) o AMI Windows BIOS (no date) o 4 MB RAM... actually, at boot up, it counts 38??, I think because of a shadow BIOS or something like that. I checked everything I could, but I didn't find a way to disable it. I see four 1 MB SIMMs installed. o Quantum Hardisk using a Quantum driver to translate geometry (yes, the BIOS has LBA support, but the disk doesn't seem to care) o Something very important I cann't quite remember now. o I used several installation disks... the one's that put 0.93R6 as version, the one's that put 1.1 as version, the one's with the network fix. I haven't tried the one's with the security problem fix yet. -Marcelo
