Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-05-12 Thread Jerome Warnier
Le lundi 16 avril 2007 à 07:34 -0500, Bob Tracy a écrit : [..] The old x86 boxes I mentioned aren't running Debian. No particular reason for that other than Debian didn't exist when those machines were originally put into service. Debian does exist since August 1993, what kind of machines are

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-05-12 Thread Bob Tracy
Jerome Warnier wrote: Le lundi 16 avril 2007 _ 07:34 -0500, Bob Tracy a _crit : [..] The old x86 boxes I mentioned aren't running Debian. No particular reason for that other than Debian didn't exist when those machines were originally put into service. Debian does exist since August

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-05-12 Thread Jerome Warnier
Le samedi 12 mai 2007 à 08:24 -0500, Bob Tracy a écrit : Jerome Warnier wrote: Le lundi 16 avril 2007 _ 07:34 -0500, Bob Tracy a _crit : [..] The old x86 boxes I mentioned aren't running Debian. No particular reason for that other than Debian didn't exist when those machines were

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 12:08:01AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:35:03PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: (2) being unable to build firefox with gcc/g++ 4.X (compiler segfault during build). firefox-1.5.X and -2.0.X build fine with gxx-3.4,

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-16 Thread Bob Tracy
Steve Langasek wrote: (yet something else demonstrating that I know just enough about apt and friends to be dangerous :-)) Understood that I can get out of the firefox building business for Alpha if I really want to... (...) the official firefox releases are for i686 (...) Um? Is this

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:35:03PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: (2) being unable to build firefox with gcc/g++ 4.X (compiler segfault during build). firefox-1.5.X and -2.0.X build fine with gxx-3.4, although it takes nearly eight hours for a build to finish due to

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:35:03PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: (2) being unable to build firefox with gcc/g++ 4.X (compiler segfault during build). firefox-1.5.X and -2.0.X build fine with gxx-3.4, although it takes nearly eight hours for a build to finish due to incredibly long ld

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-12 Thread Bob Tracy
rct wrote: Congratulations to the Debian team on the occasion of the Etch release for the Alpha! I have my 21 CDs in hand, and will give them a good working over on my PWS 433au beginning next week. Apologies for the delay, but it's federal income tax season and I'll have no spare time

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-11 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 10 Apr 2007, Bob Tracy wrote: Other annoyances (minor, but worth mentioning): (1) unaligned trap messages in the system logs for various applications. I honestly don't know how or to whom these should be reported. As far as the package maintainers are concerned, the number

RE: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-11 Thread Uwe Schindler
Unaligned traps point to code needing fixing, not binutils / whatever. radvd (IPv6 support)? Version 1.0-1 of that package is what's generating most of the unaligned trap messages I'm seeing. Network code often displays unaligned traps, because it does a read of network data, and then

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-11 Thread Bob Tracy
Paul Slootman wrote: Unaligned traps point to code needing fixing, not binutils / whatever. radvd (IPv6 support)? Version 1.0-1 of that package is what's generating most of the unaligned trap messages I'm seeing. Network code often displays unaligned traps, because it does a read of

Re: Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-11 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:43:13PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: The simpliest is to install the prctl package (which is now available for alpha, too, as the kernels are compatible to that: http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/prctl ) and start the program with prctl and set the flag to send

Congratulation on Etch release

2007-04-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Congratulations to the Debian team on the occasion of the Etch release for the Alpha! I have my 21 CDs in hand, and will give them a good working over on my PWS 433au beginning next week. Apologies for the delay, but it's federal income tax season and I'll have no spare time until after the