Re: Debian for PPC problems

1999-12-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 12:35:53PM -0600, Kevin Puetz wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Hi I just want to know if anyone experiences such unpleasant problems > > as I do. If so, then please let me know that i'm not alone :-) > > > 1. My APT is useless - it thinks every package it fetches is

Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

1999-12-07 Thread C.M. Connelly
Nathan, > "NO" == Nathan Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NO> Um, a bug report? Let's keep this in perspective. Potato NO> is the *unstable* Debian tree (use at your own risk, NO> etc.). From what I can tell, the volunteers on the PowerPC NO> team are doing a phenomenal job.

BMAC eth0 dropping packets (was: Debian for PPC problems)

1999-12-07 Thread Brian Rectanus
> 2. When telnetting to the mac-linux box i experience frequent shell hangs. > Simply the screen halts and I can do nothing - sometimes only KILL -9 for > both telnet and telnetd helps. And yes, i tried CTRL-Q > > 3. Something strange seems to be happening to network connections. Namely > when I t

Re: Debian for PPC problems

1999-12-07 Thread Josh Huber
Jeremy T. Bouse writes: > This has been well mention'd for atleast the last week here on the > list and on #Debian by me on more than one ocassion... the 0.3.15 version > which is available for i386 now should fix the problem when it gets into > the powerpc tree... the problem is with 0.3.14.

Re: Endianness query

1999-12-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, David Given wrote: > According to my PowerPC architecture manual, the PowerPC can be switched from > big-endian to little-endian mode. Does PowerPC Linux support this? I have > heard rumours that the endianness can be switched on a per-process basis. Can > anyone enlighten me

Re: Debian for PPC problems

1999-12-07 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi I just want to know if anyone experiences such unpleasant problems > as I do. If so, then please let me know that i'm not alone :-) > 1. My APT is useless - it thinks every package it fetches is corrupted > (md5sum), but I checked it, and everyone is OK APT got broke

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> >I would say that this is version skid then, Intel had the dependency > >problem for a couple of weeks. > > > >Obviously PPC netbase is older than PPC netstd (and Intel netbase). > >Once the version skid resolves the problem should therefore clear up. > > Is there an automatic way of keeping t

Re: Debian for PPC problems

1999-12-07 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Marcin Owsiany was said to been seen saying: > Hi > I just want to know if anyone experiences such unpleasant problems as I do. > If so, then please let me know that i'm not alone :-) > > 1. > My APT is useless - it thinks every package it fetches is corrupted > (md5sum), but I checked it, and eve

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread Sergio Brandano
>I would say that this is version skid then, Intel had the dependency >problem for a couple of weeks. > >Obviously PPC netbase is older than PPC netstd (and Intel netbase). >Once the version skid resolves the problem should therefore clear up. Is there an automatic way of keeping the two distri

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread danielt
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > I am now on an Intel platform, and my dpkg says: > > >Package: netbase > >Priority: standard > >Section: base > >Installed-Size: 1069 > >Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Architecture: i386 > >Version: 3.16-7 > >Replaces: netstd (<<

Re: Endianness query

1999-12-07 Thread David Given
>Nope. This requires all sorts of messiness (what's the endianness of >interrupt handlers? Etc.). [...] Well, the PowerPC allows you to specify (the LE bit in the MSR controls the endianness of the running code, and the ILE bit controls the endianness if an exception handler is called). I didn

Re: Endianness query

1999-12-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Nope. This requires all sorts of messiness (what's the endianness of interrupt handlers? Etc.). On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 04:32:17PM +, David Given wrote: > According to my PowerPC architecture manual, the PowerPC can be switched from > big-endian to little-endian mode. Does PowerPC Linux supp

Debian for PPC problems

1999-12-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi I just want to know if anyone experiences such unpleasant problems as I do. If so, then please let me know that i'm not alone :-) 1. My APT is useless - it thinks every package it fetches is corrupted (md5sum), but I checked it, and everyone is OK 2. When telnetting to the mac-linux box i expe

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread Sergio Brandano
I am now on an Intel platform, and my dpkg says: >Package: netbase >Priority: standard >Section: base >Installed-Size: 1069 >Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Architecture: i386 >Version: 3.16-7 >Replaces: netstd (<< 3.00) ^^ >Depends: tcpd, libc6 (>= 2.1)

Endianness query

1999-12-07 Thread David Given
According to my PowerPC architecture manual, the PowerPC can be switched from big-endian to little-endian mode. Does PowerPC Linux support this? I have heard rumours that the endianness can be switched on a per-process basis. Can anyone enlighten me? I could really, really use this. -- +- Dav

Fiddly little problems

1999-12-07 Thread David Given
I've just installed a Debian PowerPC system on a PowerMac 8200/120 system (containing a 601 --- oh, the joys of cutting edge technology). Everything works pretty well with a few problems. (a) X keeps crashing. I'm using Xfbdev; everything works fine for a while, but the server will randomly and

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread danielt
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Recommended fix: reduce the dependency of netbase on netstd > >to a "suggests". > > netstd is labeled as obsolete > netbase still depends on netstd!!! > Then perhaps it should be reduced further. Obviously _someone

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread Sergio Brandano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Recommended fix: reduce the dependency of netbase on netstd >to a "suggests". netstd is labeled as obsolete netbase still depends on netstd!!! Sergio

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread danielt
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Nathan Olsen wrote: > >I'm having some trouble not installing fingerd, rwhod and the rest of > >the r* gang. Trouble is that netstd 3.07-10 depends on them and > >netbase 3.16-2 in turn recommends netstd. dselect won't let me get > >rid of netstd without dumping netbase, too

Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

1999-12-07 Thread Manuel Sickert
Hi, yesterday I had the same problems while upgrading gimp. I just forced dpkg to install gimp(1.0.4-2) with the latest slang1 library (1.3.9-1). Up to now it works fine for me. Men, I don't won't to mess up your systems! I just told it worked for me ;-) Manuel PS: IMHO the "<" should be a ">".

Re: Big drives

1999-12-07 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
Dan Green wrote: > > Hello there, > We have a 37 gig drive in an Apple Blue and White (first generation) > G3. All seems to work fine, and it detects the drive properly, and the mkfs > runs without incident. However, when I try and mount it, I get a couple > hundred > errors stating that

Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

1999-12-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:43:58PM -0800, Nathan Olsen wrote: > Um, a bug report? Let's keep this in perspective. Potato is the *unstable* > Debian tree (use at your own risk, etc.). From what I can tell, the > volunteers on the PowerPC team are doing a phenomenal job. Well, -someone- has to repo

Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

1999-12-07 Thread Nathan Olsen
>> "MS" == Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >MS> I realize this is an old version of slang1. I upgraded to >MS> 1.3.9 just now and get the same dependency problem (though I >MS> expected it this time). Which leads to the next >MS> question... how do I resolve this

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread Nathan Olsen
>I'm having some trouble not installing fingerd, rwhod and the rest of >the r* gang. Trouble is that netstd 3.07-10 depends on them and >netbase 3.16-2 in turn recommends netstd. dselect won't let me get >rid of netstd without dumping netbase, too (which, of course, I can't >do). >Is this a bug?

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-07 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Michael G Schwern was said to been seen saying: > I'm having some trouble not installing fingerd, rwhod and the rest of > the r* gang. Trouble is that netstd 3.07-10 depends on them and > netbase 3.16-2 in turn recommends netstd. dselect won't let me get > rid of netstd without dumping netbase, t

[jim@ic.uva.nl: Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness]

1999-12-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
This came from the slang1 maintainer. Apparently its simply a matter of rebuilding the packages that want slang1 << 1.3. - Forwarded message from Jim Mintha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:21:22 +0100 From: Jim Mintha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTE