Problems with bash
I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the shell crashes (logs out if on the console, quits an xterm). There have also been various strange crashes when using filename completion. If I change the shell to csh or tcsh and try the same things nothing happens. The system is partially potato, but I didn't get any errors about missed dependencies when I installed the new bash. Anyone have any idea what's going on? MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
Re: Problems with bash
Matthew Guenther wrote: I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the shell crashes (logs out if on the console, quits an xterm). There have also been various strange crashes when using filename completion. If I change the shell to csh or tcsh and try the same things nothing happens. The system is partially potato, but I didn't get any errors about missed dependencies when I installed the new bash. Anyone have any idea what's going on? MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I got exactly the same problem with the potato version. My system is already glibc2.1 just a few packages are not upgraded. I installed it with apt-get and there were no problems about dependencies. After downgrading to the slink version everythink works fine again. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Problems w/bash upgrading to libreadlineg
Howdy, I think I've really got my Debian Linux system messed up now. I was trying to upgrade to: bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb, which requires libreadlineg2 (2.1-10.1). Well, dselect would always fail with an internal error - filename not found...chunk 16 message. So, I decided to try to install with dpkg command line. It basically said I couldn't upgrade bash because the current bash used libreadline2 and that conflicted with libreadlineg2. And it wouldn't upgrade to libreadlineg2 because it said that the conflict would break libreadline2 and thus bash. Aargh! So here's where I really hosed up my system. I forced the upgrade to libreadlineg2 and tried to force the bash upgrade. The libreadlineg2 upgrade worked, but has now broken the current bash, so no scripts (including the dpkg subprocess pre-installation script) will run, and thus the new bash will not install. Help! How can I install the new bash so I will have an operational system? Perhaps if someone can send me the new bash executable, I can install that by hand. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Randy Saint [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems w/bash upgrading to libreadlineg
Randy Marianne Saint hat gesagt: // Randy Marianne Saint wrote: Howdy, I think I've really got my Debian Linux system messed up now. Yes, you REALLY did :( I was trying to upgrade to: bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb, which requires libreadlineg2 (2.1-10.1). Well, dselect would always fail with an internal error - filename not found...chunk 16 message. So, I decided to try to install with dpkg command line. It basically said I couldn't upgrade bash because the current bash used libreadline2 and that conflicted with libreadlineg2. And it wouldn't upgrade to libreadlineg2 because it said that the conflict would break libreadline2 and thus bash. Aargh! I read this as if you tried to upgrade to the libc6/glibc-bash and therefore to a libc6 system without following the critical upgrade path as described in the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (Look at www.debian.org for pointers to this.) So here's where I really hosed up my system. I forced the upgrade to libreadlineg2 and tried to force the bash upgrade. NEVER force if you're not 1000 % sure what you're messing up. The libreadlineg2 upgrade worked, but has now broken the current bash, so no scripts (including the dpkg subprocess pre-installation script) will run, and thus the new bash will not install. Help! How can I install the new bash so I will have an operational system? This will be complicated, sorry to say. I would maybe try to somehow get the old bash and the old readlinelibs working again. Difficult, because you don't have a working bash and dpkg, I know. Maybe you can boot from a bootdisk and try to replace the files by hand (*.deb files are just archives packed with ar. Inside you will find three files: * debian-binary * control.tar.gz * data.tar.gz In data.tar.gz there are the needed binaries. BUT: To be honest, I think it is time to backup your home- and etc-directories and do a fresh reinstall, prefarably from a new-bought Debian-2.0-CD. Perhaps if someone can send me the new bash executable, I can install that by hand. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Problems with bash 2.01
Also is there going to be a stable and safe way to upgrade to bash 2.01 (by way of a deb package) any time soon? Of is there already and I don't know about it? I would like to install as few programs from unstable as possible. I've built a dozen libc5 version deb's including bash 2.01 and ncurses 3.4. They've been working great for me so far, and might be useful for someone who are not ready for glibc. The problem is I don't have a place to upload to. If someone has a ftp site and is willing to hold these packages, I'd be glad to upload. Let me know via email, since I'm not on this list. Cheers. Hong (P.S. XFree 3.3.1 is out for a while. It's basically a bug-fixed release. AFAIK, the debian maitainer is busy migrating the packages to glibc, therefore it's very unlikely there will be a libc5 version going into the bo tree. I'm not going to upgrade to hamm before it gets more stable since I've something important going on on my debian box. However, I don't wait too long for X 3.3.1 either, because it claimed a bug related to my video card driver had been fixed. So I intended to build a libc5 version of X 3.3.1. But the problem is that I don't have enough space to do so (the largest package I can build is XEmacs). To build X, I believe, I at least need 500 mb disk space. Again, if someone out there is interested in this and willing to provide me a temporary account on his/her debian libc5 box for the weekend, I'm willing to build the packages and make them available to all interested parties. Thanks.) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with bash 2.01
Could some one with an FTP site please let Hong upload his bash packages to it. And if you do could you please tell me the address. I really would like to have a working copy of Bash 2.01 as I can't seem to get one I have compiled to work. Thanks On 26-Aug-97 H Huang wrote: Also is there going to be a stable and safe way to upgrade to bash 2.01 (by way of a deb package) any time soon? Of is there already and I don't know about it? I would like to install as few programs from unstable as possible. I've built a dozen libc5 version deb's including bash 2.01 and ncurses 3.4. They've been working great for me so far, and might be useful for someone who are not ready for glibc. The problem is I don't have a place to upload to. If someone has a ftp site and is willing to hold these packages, I'd be glad to upload. Let me know via email, since I'm not on this list. Cheers. Hong (P.S. XFree 3.3.1 is out for a while. It's basically a bug-fixed release. AFAIK, the debian maitainer is busy migrating the packages to glibc, therefore it's very unlikely there will be a libc5 version going into the bo tree. I'm not going to upgrade to hamm before it gets more stable since I've something important going on on my debian box. However, I don't wait too long for X 3.3.1 either, because it claimed a bug related to my video card driver had been fixed. So I intended to build a libc5 version of X 3.3.1. But the problem is that I don't have enough space to do so (the largest package I can build is XEmacs). To build X, I believe, I at least need 500 mb disk space. Again, if someone out there is interested in this and willing to provide me a temporary account on his/her debian libc5 box for the weekend, I'm willing to build the packages and make them available to all interested parties. Thanks.) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - E-Mail: Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 25-Aug-97 Time: 22:52:40 The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with bash 2.01
Travis Cole wrote: Could some one with an FTP site please let Hong upload his bash packages to it. And if you do could you please tell me the address. I really would like to have a working copy of Bash 2.01 as I can't seem to get one I have compiled to work. You can get bash 2.01 compiled for 1.3.1 from my personal web page: http://gatekeeper.bdsinc.com/~jjorgens -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with bash 2.01
I recently downloaded the source for bash2.01 from sunsite and compiled it my self. I copied the bash executable to /bin, being sure to backup the old executable. Now most things seem to work fine. I had read the reason helper apps don't work with Netscape was a bug in bash 2.0. I can now call Real Audio Player from Netscape with no problems. But I am having one really annoying problem. In Netscape and XFMail the backspace key now works as delete. It deletes the character to the right of the cursor. I am running Debian 1.3.1 with the key mappings unmodified. In my xterms and at the console the backspace key works correctly. In XFMail it actually works correctly in the subject and to fields but not in the composition window. I know this is caused by bash because I can change back to the old executable and the backspace key works correctly. Can any one help? Also is there going to be a stable and safe way to upgrade to bash 2.01 (by way of a deb package) any time soon? Of is there already and I don't know about it? I would like to install as few programs from unstable as possible. Thanks. - E-Mail: Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 25-Aug-97 Time: 14:10:22 The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
