Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Steve Juranich wrote: As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am sending this to debian-user. This is a good place to hang out for Debian users of all levels. I encourage you to stick around. Apology, that I do not subscribe debian-user. But, I do have web access to that list. My intention was to report a problem as suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not like to install gdm (dpkg error code 1). Fortunetely, everything works fine after rerunning the installation process. As a matter of fact, this is the first time ever, I have managed automatically to install the X11 server (I used to configure it manually). Erm, do you mean 'kdm' in the second paragraph, otherwise I'm confused. No, I guess that the X Window System option in tasksel installs everything: xdm, gdm, kdm. But, apparently gdm does not like to be installed together with kdm? It happen more than once that the KDE installing process crashes (at another time and another system). Question: - whoose bug is that? - how to report it? After browsing the current bug list queue, I believe that not repporting this trivial bug is a better option. Thank you anyway. -- Abdul Latip -- Angkasa Internet Junior Staff -- ANGIN.com http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)
As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am sending this to debian-user. This is a good place to hang out for Debian users of all levels. I encourage you to stick around. I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not like to install gdm (dpkg error code 1). Fortunetely, everything works fine after rerunning the installation process. As a matter of fact, this is the first time ever, I have managed automatically to install the X11 server (I used to configure it manually). Erm, do you mean 'kdm' in the second paragraph, otherwise I'm confused. Unfortunately, just getting the exit code is not really enough to diagnose the problem. Apt is normally pretty good about spitting out useful error messages when it dies. What error messages do you see? Question: - whoose bug is that? Well, again, without having more useful error messages, it's difficult to tell. Maybe you tried running apt-get as a normal user, maybe the package is broken, maybe there was just too much bad mojo in the room when you tried the install. - how to report it? The best way I've found to report bugs is to first of all do 'apt-get install reportbug'. Then when you think you've found a bug in (for instance) kdm, you would type 'reportbug kdm'. You'll want to read the man page for reportbug as there are a couple of environment variables you'll want to set. But it is a very nice way to file new bugs. HTH -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)
Please be careful about your attribution lines. I did not write any of what you attributed to me. All of that was written by Abdul Latip [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Bob On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:22, Bob Proulx wrote: I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not pgpvKXa6YBwHz.pgp Description: PGP signature
How to report a Bug (Which Package?)
As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am sending this to debian-user. I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not like to install gdm (dpkg error code 1). Fortunetely, everything works fine after rerunning the installation process. As a matter of fact, this is the first time ever, I have managed automatically to install the X11 server (I used to configure it manually). Question: - whoose bug is that? - how to report it? Thank you, -- Abdul Latip -- Junior Staff -- Angkasa Internet -- http://angin.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)
I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not A suggestion. It is possible to run 'tasksel -t' and select what you want, then finish. The -t is test mode and won't actually run anything. But it will print the apt-get line that it would have installed without the -t option. I find that useful. Use that output as a starting point hint and run apt-get yourself manually. Avoid installing what you don't want. In this way I can install 'automake1.5' instead of the older 'automake' and so forth. For my own personal situation I plan to create my own metapackage that will pull these things in to make this simpler for me. Right now I just install a long list of 'good stuff'. But I am installing Debian almost regularly on different machines these days and a meta package customized for my installation so as to avoid tasksel would be useful. Sorry I can't help with the rest of your question. But hopefully this is useful by itself. Bob pgplWRjubSLgB.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)
On 19-Jun-2002 Abdul Latip wrote: As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am sending this to debian-user. I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not like to install gdm (dpkg error code 1). Fortunetely, everything works fine after rerunning the installation process. As a matter of fact, this is the first time ever, I have managed automatically to install the X11 server (I used to configure it manually). Question: - whoose bug is that? - how to report it? if you have your machine setup to send mail via the mailer daemon (exim by default) the handy package reportbug will help you. As to whose bug is it, that is harder to say based on your report. Try starting with gdm. Be sure to give as much of the error message and surrounding info as you can remember. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:22, Bob Proulx wrote: I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not My suggestion would be to install nothing with tasksel and dselect and then apt-get everything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
