Re: UML skas patches for "linux" kernel packages
Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Nic, > > do you *really* need SKAS? UML works without SKAS, but I heard it should be > somewhat slower without it. I have 2 UML envs running on my SID desktop (an > old SID and a very old SuSE system). They are pretty well used by my > collegues as development systems. And they do not feel much slower as real > machines. > > But maybe you have completely different ideas about why you need > SKAS. UML works with thread tracing or SKAS. But My TT kernel is not working very well; I'm experiencing strange lockups and peculiar things. UML is a difficult beast to work on but it seems that TT is not well used anymore. SKAS seems the favoured option. So, does anyone know how to put the skas patch into the host kernel? Nic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UML skas patches for "linux" kernel packages
I'm trying to run a SKAS based UML on an etch image. I need SKAS support in the host kernel. I have 2.6.12 kernel installed from the debian source package: linux-source-2.6.12 I have the package: linux-patch-debian-2.6.12 installed as well. But I don't seem to have the skas patches. There is the package: kernel-patch-skas But this seems to apply to the old kernel-*** packages and not the new linux-*** ones. Does anyone know what I have to do to get a skas host kernel? Nic Ferrier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt and etch: keys
When I do an: apt-get update I'm getting this: W: GPG error: http://ftp.ticklers.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F W: GPG error: http://ftp.ticklers.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F When you look at the keyfiles there are 2 keys in them. Can anyone help with this? I think I've had this problem before and it was related to the fact that there were 2 keys in the keyfile; someone whittled it down to one again and everything worked. btw my machines are sarge + testing (they're apt-get is 0.6.42.1) Nic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot-floppies broken?
I have a mostly stable/testing system. I wanted to install the boot-floppies package but it doesn't seem to work. When I use the testing version I get this: # apt-get -t testing install boot-floppies Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: boot-floppies: Depends: cslatex but it is not going to be installed Depends: cspsfonts but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages When I use stable I get this: # apt-get -t stable install boot-floppies Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: boot-floppies: Depends: glibc-pic Depends: slang1-pic but it is not going to be installed Depends: libnewt-dev Depends: gettext but it is not going to be installed Depends: pointerize but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages My question is: is this a bug? Should I report it? I can't find any live bug that refers to the boot-floppies. Sorry if this is a dumb question. Nic Ferrier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Terminfo and emacs
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can fix emacs by using > > > >apt-get install termcap-compat > > > > > > It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there > > is no one with the time to do the work. > > Thanks for the usage tips for dpkg. And the above install did get > things working. However I ran into other problems. Emacs is not > finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile with X11 > support. I didn't save the error output since I don't really want to > debug it right now. Too busy getting this new install working. > > I use emacs a lot so I just installed the debian version of emacs-21 > instead. Or I should say I'm downloading it now. I use emacs-21 from CVS quite happily. Here is the list of X stuff on my machine: ii xbase-clients 4.1.0-9miscellaneous X clients ii xbooks 3.3.6-1X Window System technical documentation in P ii xdm4.1.0-9X display manager ii xext 3.3.6-11potato extensions to X servers ii xf86setup 3.3.6-11potato X server configuration tools ii xfonts-100dpi 4.1.0-9100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-975 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-artwiz 1.4Very small futuristic ASCII fonts for X ii xfonts-base4.1.0-9standard fonts for X ii xfonts-cyrilli 4.1.0-9Cyrillic fonts for X ii xfonts-gimpers 1.3X11 fonts created by Artwiz, TigerT, and Dan ii xfonts-pex 3.3.6-2fonts for minimal PEX support in X ii xfonts-scalabl 4.1.0-9scalable fonts for X ii xfonts-scalabl 4.0.3-3non-free Type1 fonts from XFree86 ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-9X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xfs3.3.6-11potato X font server ii xfs-xtt1.3.0.xf410-10 X-TrueType font server ii xlib6g 4.1.0-9pseudopackage providing X libraries ii xlibmesa3 4.1.0-9XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library ii xlibs 4.1.0-9X Window System client libraries ii xlibs-dev 4.1.0-9X Window System client library development f ii xmh3.3.6-11potato X interface to MH mail system ii xnest 3.3.6-11potato nested X server ii xproxy 3.3.6-11potato X proxy services ii xprt 3.3.6-11potato X print server ii xserver-common 4.1.0-9files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-mach64 3.3.6-11potato X server for ATI Mach64-based graphics cards ii xserver-vga16 3.3.6-11potato X server for VGA graphics cards ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-9the XFree86 X server ii xterm 3.3.6-11potato X terminal emulator ii xutils 4.1.0-14 X Window System utility programs ii xvfb 3.3.6-11potato virtual framebuffer X server ii xviddetect 0.3-4 XFree86 installation helper ii libxaw64.1.0-9X Athena widget set library (version 6) ii libxaw74.1.0-9X Athena widget set library There might be some other things but I don't think so. I'm fairly sure that emacs 21 can be built quite easily without development packages for X. Nic
Re: Terminfo and emacs
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I may have jacked up my terminfo database. > > I built emacs from sources today. A very recent beta of emacs-21. > Something like the rpm commands `rpm -qf ' will tell > exactly what package a file belongs to. Then with that info you can > say rpm -V to find out if the package or its files are > screwed. > > dpgk -l 'terminfo*' doesn't know anything about terminfo No. I think the terminfo stuff comes with the ncurses packages. I find doing this: dpkg -l | grep term works better than looking for specific packages. When I do this it turns up the ncurses-base package, if you do: dpkg -L ncurses-base You'll see the terminfo stuff there. > People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated > yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get > on top of those kind of commands? The deb package manager is more sophisticated (AFAIK) because it tracks dependancies and versions much better than RPM which only does a cursory job. > Any hints on what is causing the emacs problem. You can fix emacs by using apt-get install termcap-compat It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there is no one with the time to do the work. Nic
potato and glibc-2.2.3 distrib
I'm trying to setup a machine for development and I just can't get glibc-2.2.3 to build on potato. >>>>background In the past I've used debian-unstable for doing development, the trouble is I find that, well, too unstable. I considered using debian-testing but the stuff I'm working on (network implementation layer for GCJ) generally means I have to look at source code anyway so it's easier if I just build from source. Or that's what I thought. <<< --enable-add-ons - built glibc - run glibc's make check Unfortunately "make check" fails saying: "can't work out user name for id " I can fix that by changing the NSS config slightly but that breaks debian and anyway, "make check" simply fails a bit further on compaining about some posix issue. I presume that I'm missing a library so I added testing (where glibc-2.2.3 is available) to my sources.list and did this: apt-get -s install glibc-2.2.3 This reported no new packages (it did report new packages but I have them all, I presume that there are some versioning issues). Here's a list of some of the relevant installed packages: g++2.95.2-13 gcc2.95.2-13 libc6 2.1.3-18 libc6-dev 2.1.3-18 libdb2 2.4.14-2.7.7.1 libdb2-util2.4.14-2.7.7.1 libgdbmg1 1.7.3-26.2 libident 0.22-2 liblockfile1 1.01 libltdl0 1.3.3-9.1 libltdl0-dev 1.3.3-9.1 libncurses44.2-9 libncurses55.0-6.0potato1 libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 libnet-telnet- 3.01-2 libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-13 libstdc++2.10- 2.95.2-13 libstdc++2.9-g 2.91.66-4 Please, please, please help. I just don't know what to do next. Nic Ferrier
UK mirror - problem?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to raise this but I think there may be a problem with the current stable. I've just upgraded a debian stable (i386) and got some very strange config... 24 package were upgraded and apt went into config mode. Normal enough... but what it wanted me to config was a new user - the "normal user" config like when you're during the full install. The opther strange thing was that it didn't ask me to specify the name of the new user, it just said: "you have to make a new user.. blah blah" and then: "enter the password for the new user..." And it picked up one of the users I'd already got on the system and tried to crete it, naturally it didn't work and the operation failed. The config then got stuck in a loop, asking the same questions over and over again. I've tried this both from the UK and the US mirrors. Nic
man
I've just installed debian (potato) on an IMac (which went rather well all things considered). I've upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2-pre4 (a PPC kernel release) and everything seemed to be going well. However, I've just noticed that man doesn't find the man pages. All the pages seem to be installed and mandb is set up correctly... it's just not working. I also tried setting the MANPATH to the same location as the mandb stuff but that didn't work either. Is man broken or something? or am I doing something incredibly wrong? man works on the 5 other debian (intel) machines I have here. I'm very confused. Please help. Nic Ferrier
apt-get upgrade failure
When using: apt-get upgrade on the potato distribution I get an error running the upgrade as soon as I have finished the configuration questions. The error is this: Syntax error at /tmp/sometmpfile line 263: E: sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (2) E: failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt I don't seem to be able to do anything about this... I realise that the potato distrib is unstable and that I have to accept the thing being a bit wobbly but this seems to be more than just wobbly packages... it seems to be the apt system itself. Can anyone help please? Nic Ferrier
Potato upgrade problem
When using: apt-get upgrade on the unstable distribution I get an error running the upgrade. The error is this: Syntax error at sometmpfile line 263: E: sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (2) E: failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt I don't seem to be able to do anything about this... I realise that the potato distrib is unstable and that I have to accept the thing being a bit wobbly but this seems to be more than just wobbly packages... it seems to be the apt system itself. Can anyone help please? Nic Ferrier
Emacs 20.4
I've noticed a problem with GNU-Emacs 20.4 on my Potato installation When running inside X windows (using latest GNOME and Enlightenment is WM) the DEL key and the deletechar key are mapped to the same key symbol. (sorry if I use the wrong terms - I don't really know how emacs deals with key tables) This is dashed inconveniant... it's strange though because it's fine outside of X. It would be great if someone could do me a favour and test this on their system to see if they get the same problem... if it's a problem I can find out how to fix it. Thanks very much. Nic Ferrier
