Re: 1.2.4 list of known problems
I have just noticed that this message was not correctly delivered on Thursday 17 April, I'm sorry, I send it again now. - Original message follows - [ Part 2: Included Message ] Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:34:21 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alair Pereira do Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 1.2.4 list of known problems On 16 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: If I understood right, this is known bug on which order the packages are installed and has being worked. You can solve this by choosing 'install' again in dselect. BTW, put /usr/X11R6/lib in yout /etc/ld.conf and run ldconfig if you have not done it. Thank you very much. I had also another reply via private e-mail, Marco Frattola [EMAIL PROTECTED] kindly sent the following to me (pointing out that it may not be up to date): Subject: List of installation problems for 1.2 The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. 1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file. Add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. 2. Dselect fails to satisfy pre-depends for perl (libdl1) Installing ldso by hand solves the problem. 3. Bug#5659: dpkg-gencontrol fails in chown new files listfile. Possible patch. 4. New sendmail fails to use old .cf file One report indicates re-installation fixes the problem. 5. Cron dies. (actually never starts) Run update-rc.d cron defaults 6. Gcc depends on cpp, but cpp conflicts with gcc. Retag gcc and re-run deselect. 7. Modconf messes up screen display on some lines. Possible dialog problem? 8. /bin/perl disapears and reappears during installation. Replace link by hand: ln -s /usr/bin/perl /bin/perl 9. Bug#5479 dpkg fails to preserve set id bits when copying files. No fix reported (possible patch) 10. gpm preinstall can't remove old gpm Remove by hand using dpkg --purge. 11. xbase can't remove xdm and xfs Remove by hand using dpkg --purge. 12. libg++ and libg++-dev conflict. Re-running the installation fixes it. 13. dependent packages bomb because libc5 is not installed first Upgrade base first. 14. no /dev/sr0 from MAKEDEV New version fixes this. 15. Gimp fails because there is no .gimprc file Create an empty .gimprc 16. Base-files should Provide: base Was: Smartlist and possibly other programs as well, depend on base. Fixed in the next version. 17. Adduser depends on perl-suid, not in base. Install by hand using --force-depends 18. Mc fails to declare it's dependence on libgpm. Should declare dpendence on libgpm. Install the gpm package. See you again. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages not coming from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address some autoresponse messages may return when I'm not at home. --- Potete utilizzare [EMAIL PROTECTED] per messaggi non provenienti da sistemi automatici di qualunque tipo, per esempio mailing list. Da quell'indirizzo potranno venire risposte automatiche quando sono fuori citta`. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 1.2.4 list of known problems
On 16 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: If I understood right, this is known bug on which order the packages are installed and has being worked. You can solve this by choosing 'install' again in dselect. BTW, put /usr/X11R6/lib in yout /etc/ld.conf and run ldconfig if you have not done it. Thank you very much. I had also another reply via private e-mail, Marco Frattola [EMAIL PROTECTED] kindly sent the following to me (pointing out that it may not be up to date): Subject: List of installation problems for 1.2 The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. 1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file. Add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. 2. Dselect fails to satisfy pre-depends for perl (libdl1) Installing ldso by hand solves the problem. 3. Bug#5659: dpkg-gencontrol fails in chown new files listfile. Possible patch. 4. New sendmail fails to use old .cf file One report indicates re-installation fixes the problem. 5. Cron dies. (actually never starts) Run update-rc.d cron defaults 6. Gcc depends on cpp, but cpp conflicts with gcc. Retag gcc and re-run deselect. 7. Modconf messes up screen display on some lines. Possible dialog problem? 8. /bin/perl disapears and reappears during installation. Replace link by hand: ln -s /usr/bin/perl /bin/perl 9. Bug#5479 dpkg fails to preserve set id bits when copying files. No fix reported (possible patch) 10. gpm preinstall can't remove old gpm Remove by hand using dpkg --purge. 11. xbase can't remove xdm and xfs Remove by hand using dpkg --purge. 12. libg++ and libg++-dev conflict. Re-running the installation fixes it. 13. dependent packages bomb because libc5 is not installed first Upgrade base first. 14. no /dev/sr0 from MAKEDEV New version fixes this. 15. Gimp fails because there is no .gimprc file Create an empty .gimprc 16. Base-files should Provide: base Was: Smartlist and possibly other programs as well, depend on base. Fixed in the next version. 17. Adduser depends on perl-suid, not in base. Install by hand using --force-depends 18. Mc fails to declare it's dependence on libgpm. Should declare dpendence on libgpm. Install the gpm package. See you again. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages not coming from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address some autoresponse messages may return when I'm not at home. --- Potete utilizzare [EMAIL PROTECTED] per messaggi non provenienti da sistemi automatici di qualunque tipo, per esempio mailing list. Da quell'indirizzo potranno venire risposte automatiche quando sono fuori citta`. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 1.2.4 list of known problems
Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm new to Debian. I've been waiting for one month to receive the 1.2.4 CD from Cheap Bytes (sent March 3rd arrived April 4th) and I'm I received my 1.2.4 from them in one week or so. And I am in Brazil. trying with it these days... I would not start waiting for another month NOW to get a more recent release (and the WEB says they're still selling 1.2.4 CDs). I tried installing anything just already marked at first entry in dselect (just had to de-select perl-base), but I read overriding messages during install and afterwards I had complains about configuration of some packages, which I type here by hand: ./base/libc5_5.4.20-1.deb ./dev/perl_5.003.07-6.deb ./editors/ed_0.2-11.deb ./misc/gpm_1.10-2.deb libc5-dev libdb1-dev libg++2.7-dev libgdbm1-dev texbin latex psnfss I didn't see any message at install-time saying that the release may have such problems, so I was thinking that if anybody had tried it before releasing it I should have anything working clean. If I understood right, this is known bug on which order the packages are installed and has being worked. You can solve this by choosing 'install' again in dselect. BTW, put /usr/X11R6/lib in yout /etc/ld.conf and run ldconfig if you have not done it. -- Alair Pereira do Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
1.2.4 list of known problems
I'm new to Debian. I've been waiting for one month to receive the 1.2.4 CD from Cheap Bytes (sent March 3rd arrived April 4th) and I'm trying with it these days... I would not start waiting for another month NOW to get a more recent release (and the WEB says they're still selling 1.2.4 CDs). I tried installing anything just already marked at first entry in dselect (just had to de-select perl-base), but I read overriding messages during install and afterwards I had complains about configuration of some packages, which I type here by hand: ./base/libc5_5.4.20-1.deb ./dev/perl_5.003.07-6.deb ./editors/ed_0.2-11.deb ./misc/gpm_1.10-2.deb libc5-dev libdb1-dev libg++2.7-dev libgdbm1-dev texbin latex psnfss I didn't see any message at install-time saying that the release may have such problems, so I was thinking that if anybody had tried it before releasing it I should have anything working clean. - - Please, is there a list of known problems and related behaviours (that is consider it unusable/do this and this to fix/ignore safely this message)? - Thanks in advance. I'll be more concise afterwards when I'll put some more (minor) questions/wishes later, just hope not to get flames for silly questions. I'm learning on some books and I'm reading docs, but it takes time, I haven't arrived at goal yet but still would like to have Debian well setup and running on my system. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages not coming from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address some autoresponse messages may return when I'm not at home. ---
