Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-13 Thread Simon Shapiro
Did you check that the umount (without the -n flag) actually works? Shutting it up can be a disaster on a large system. Simon P.S. Please ignore the below address and flame [EMAIL PROTECTED] He receives and answers mail :-) Simon Shapiro Bullet Techno

Bug#1363: mount error messages do not match problem

1995-12-13 Thread Robert Leslie
I can't duplicate this problem (I don't have a spare scratch disk to test with) but I suspect the mount error messages may have sufficiently improved with version 2.5. I really can't say much else about this particular case, considering the circumstance. I would close this bug, but I don't know if

Bug#2026: ncurses-base should contain description files for compiled-in terminals

1995-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Package: ncurses-base Version: 1.9.8a-1 Description files should exist for terminals that happen to be compiled in to the library. I happened to be using a different library version, and my application could not find the "linux" terminal type. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens <[EMAIL

Bug#2025: [a]getty tty permissions bad at login: prompt

1995-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
VC1 currently has an agetty at the login: prompt: chiark:~> ll /dev/tty1 crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 1 Dec 13 04:19 /dev/tty1 chiark:~> This should not be world-writeable. Ian.

/etc/fstab.sample

1995-12-13 Thread Robert Leslie
As long as I've been updating the mount package, I have a question: The mount package contains a "configuration" file /etc/fstab.sample. Would it not be better to include this file in /usr/doc/examples, or does something actually depend on it being in /etc? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2024: dip documentation problems

1995-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: netstd Version: 1.21-1 None of the documentation supplied with dip says: (a) The semantics of the locip vs. local and rmtip vs. remote special variables. (b) How to specify a space in a "wait" string, nor is there a list of the escape characters allowed in general. Ian.

More ncurses...

1995-12-13 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
A few relatively minor changes. Date: 14 Dec 95 01:39 UT Source: ncurses Binary: ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term ncurses3.0 ncurses3.0-dev Version: 1.9.8a-3 Description: ncurses-base: Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of terminals ncurses-bin: Video terminal manipulation: associa

Bug#2023: latex dumps core on -QUIT

1995-12-13 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: texbin Version: 3.1415-4 The following dialog with sh shows how to get latex to dump core. Between LaTeX's "**" prompt and the next line's "[1]+ Stopped...", I pressed C-z. - /var/tmp> ls -la total 3 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 2048 Dec 13 19:24 . drwxr-xr-x 13 r

Re: Announce: new libgdbm, libdb and libreadline

1995-12-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Here are new versions of libgdbm, libdb and libreadline. I can't find these anywhere, and it's been a couple of days since the announcement? I really, really, want to install libreadline-2.0-9 ASAP. Bdale

manpages-1.9-1

1995-12-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening folks, I'm about packaging the 1.9 manual pages. Therefore I have some questions: 1. Should I provide a "RECOMMENDED: man" line in the control file? (or should this even be a DEPENDS? Have a pleasant day, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Olde

Bug#1770: xntp dumps core with kernel 1.3.35

1995-12-13 Thread Herbert Thielen
Andrew Howell's mail: > > Austin Donnelly writes: > > Package: xntp > > Version: 3.4x-1 > > > > The 'struct timex' structure has changed in the newser 1.3.x kernels > > (for x approx > 28 or so, I'm told). > > > > This means that xntpd binaries compiled agains old kernels dumps core > > on startup.

X-10 (remote-control power switch) software

1995-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
I see there's some new X-10 control software on Sunsite. Does anyone want to work on that? Otherwise, I'll package it. The package name should be something that doesn't get confused with x11. I have the "X-10 Powerhouse CP-290" controller at home. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens <[E

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-13 Thread CD Rasmussen
Susan, are you on the debian-devel list? It might be a good idea if you're not. It is a high traffic list. That may prevent you from wanting it. Costa

Bug#2022: utmp corruption

1995-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: ? The transcript below shows a utmp corruption. Any advice on how to determine how this happened would be appreciated. The ftp process was probably run by Emacs, as I was using ange-ftp. Ian. chiark:~/mail> w 6:01pm up 28 days, 21:10, 11 users, load average: 1.17, 0.88, 1.04, 1/9

Re: Shared libraries mysteriously disappearing

1995-12-13 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: > The easiest solution I came up with was to only run ldconfig from > postinst scripts and not from postrm scripts. The only disadvantage I > can see from doing this is that a stale link and an outdated entry in > ld.so.cache may get left behind if the packa

Shared libraries mysteriously disappearing

1995-12-13 Thread David Engel
I finally tracked down the problem I've occasionally had with shared libraries mysteriously disappearing after upgrading packages. As I suspected, it was due to an undesired interaction between dpkg (which was renaming files) and ldconfig (which was removing stale symlinks). The easiest solution

Bug#2020: ppp with 1.2.13 (0.93R6)?

1995-12-13 Thread Alvar Bray
> "Karl" == Karl Eichwalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> Package: ppp Karl> Version: 2.2-1 Karl> There should be a hint that ppp-2.2 doesn't work with 1.2.13. Karl> # pppd Karl> Sorry - PPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date Karl> # cat /etc/issue Karl> Deb

Bug#2021: man pages for lrzsz corrupt

1995-12-13 Thread Alvar Bray
Hi, myrddin:~$ man lsz man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `R' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `v' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `s' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown p

Bug#1984: dpkg won't install cdtool

1995-12-13 Thread Raul Miller
I've sent a similar file to Ian, but I'm not sure if he received it. Since the bug isn't closed, I'm taking the liberty of resending this report, with a broader distribution. Ian Jackson: Err, boggle. Can you repeat this ? I can't (of course). I'd like to see the output of dpkg -D33

Packages Files

1995-12-13 Thread brian (b.c.) white
I notice that the "Packages" file in the debian-1.0 directory lists pathnames relative to ALPHA-TEST directory instead of the root directory of the distribution as is the case will all the other "Packages" files. This makes little sense to someone who got to the debian-1.0 directory via the "devel

Bug#2021: man pages for lrzsz corrupt

1995-12-13 Thread Stephen Early
Package: lrzsz Version: 0.11 myrddin:~$ man lrz man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `R' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `v' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `s' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `o' man: ignoring un

Bug#2020: ppp with 1.2.13 (0.93R6)?

1995-12-13 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Package: ppp Version: 2.2-1 There should be a hint that ppp-2.2 doesn't work with 1.2.13. # pppd Sorry - PPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date # cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 0.93R6 Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 Debian Association, Inc. and others # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: p

Re: ftp.pixar.com Incoming closed

1995-12-13 Thread Ian Murdock
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > I have removed the Incoming directory from ftp.pixar.com . The files > there still exist in ftp://ftp.pixar.com/pub/bruce/Debian . I'll delete > them after about 1 week. I'm not sure what remains in ftp://ftp.pixar.com/bruce/Debian (and I can't check at

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-13 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Before I knew about the Free-BSD man pages, I started to build man pages for the diff utilities from the diff info file and from their usage statements. In particular, I had made a man page for 'cmp' that way. When you (Jeff) pointed out the existence of the FreeBSD page, I incorporated informati