Re: Report on X

2000-10-02 Thread Steve Bowman
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:40:50PM +0100, Zsombor Cseres-Gergely wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:57:00PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > > > This item is more complicated than I can deal with right now. There seems > > to be some instability induced by attempting to start X. The following > >

Re: Report on X

2000-10-02 Thread Zsombor Cseres-Gergely
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:57:00PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > This item is more complicated than I can deal with right now. There seems > to be some instability induced by attempting to start X. The following > sequence of events describes the situation: > > login as sbowman > p

Re: Report on X

2000-09-29 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
hi, > "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> You should list the missing files. Maybe they are about Marcus> features the hurd doesn't have. Marcus> Usually, such one time hacks are terrible wrong, and don't Marcus> bring us further. In the ideal ca

Python on hurd (was RE: Report on X)

2000-09-29 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
hi, I have the python sources with me and will recompile the base python debs sometime soon and fill you folks in. I will also recompile numPy _after_ installing the new python debs and let you know. If possible I'll try to upload them (the upload may take forever...:(). And thanks for

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Steve Bowman
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:48:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > >> I just upgraded to gnumach 1.2-6 and this behaviour still occurs. > > >> Is anyone else seeing this kind of instability? > > > > > >I am; the command

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > >> I just upgraded to gnumach 1.2-6 and this behaviour still occurs. > >> Is anyone else seeing this kind of instability? > > > >I am; the command failures don't happen to me, but when starting X with a > >non-privileg

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Steve Bowman
: >Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:57 AM >Subject: Re: Report on X > > >> login as sbowman >> ps works >> su works >> startx fails >> su now fails ("Killed") >> ps now fails ("Killed") >

RE: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Brent Fulgham
> > (2) I tried to make a few debs from source. Here is what happened. > > > > (a) I wanted to compile numeric python and started to compile > > the python-llnl package (which originally was the source). I > > had installed the relevant python packages. I found that, > > the py

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:43:09PM +0530, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > $ mail > N ... > > q > unable to lock mailbox: permission denied. > $ Maybe mail needs partial locking, which is not implemented in the Hurd. Only whole file locking works. You need to check the source for l_len in the F_SET

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:04:28PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > Which reminds me, I forgot to ask. For stuff on ftp.debian.org I suppose > I should report bugs (marked "[Hurd]" perhaps), but what about stuff on > alpha.gnu.org? Do you want bug reports on Debian's BTS or just report > them to t

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
hi, > "Steve" == Steve Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> login as sbowman ps works su works startx fails su now Steve> fails ("Killed") ps now fails ("Killed") Steve> and now many other things seems to be failing, like ping. Steve> ls is one thing that still wor

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: "Frederico S. Muñoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:03:29 +0100 - Original Message - From: "Steve Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Report on X > log

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
- Original Message - From: "Steve Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Report on X > login as sbowman > ps works > su works > startx fails > su now fails ("Killed") > ps now fails ("K

Re: Report on X

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Bowman
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:04:28PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:07:47AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:27:05PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > [snip] > > > Can only run X as root. > > > > I never tried as non-root :) Any help welcome. > >

Re: Report on X

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Bowman
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:07:47AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:27:05PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > Had to --force-conflicts with dpkg to install fonts and override the > > shellutils conflict (already reported). > > This is unrelated to X, and I am working on it

Re: Report on X

2000-09-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:27:05PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > Had to --force-conflicts with dpkg to install fonts and override the > shellutils conflict (already reported). This is unrelated to X, and I am working on it (soon :) > Setting up kbd and mouse. PS/2 mouse works, _but_, have to set

Report on X

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Bowman
I got X working without too many difficulties. The things I ran into are (from memory, i.e., everything here is "IIRC ..."): Had to --force-conflicts with dpkg to install fonts and override the shellutils conflict (already reported). Setting up kbd and mouse. PS/2 mouse works, _but_, have to se