Re: [damsnet@free.fr: update about rs6k arch install report]

el. > I got no particular problem exect for the video card which needs a patch > available here: > http://www.amberdata.demon.co.uk/carolina/ MfG, Hartmut -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hartmut Koptein | Debian Maintainer and Porter Tel.: 0178-koptein (0178-5678346)| Use Debian G

Re: debian ppc website

> The website is hopelessly out of date. My own powerpc nor tervola boot currently, so i have no powerpc for the moment :( The powerpc-webpages needs an update-info for the release and the install-section must be regenerated. Sorry, cannot work on it currently. MfG, Hartmut

Re: ppc bootflops and iso's?

> I got the boot disks I used from > > ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/ > > I think there are some experimental (more recent) ones floating > around--check the archives for URL's. > > I don't know of any iso images. I have a fast connection, so I just > used ta

Re: Powerpc docs missing

> There was once a documentation on "disks-powerpc/current/doc" but it's > mostly gone. Will it be replaced by a new one? Yes, it will go into the global -- for all architectues -- debian install manuel, with parts for powerpc. But first let us test the boot-floppies and the cd-images. After tha

Re: I am interested in participating in the Debian/ppc project (PowerMac) installation testing

> Hello, I am interested in helping out with building and testing > installation disks for the Debian/ppc PowerMac. Or, if it is not easy to > get involved directly, is there anyway I can help support this project. > I have extensive experience with MacOS and the Macintosh platform and > usin

Re: Mounting CD-ROM

> I have had some trouble mounting my cd-rom, I've tried with: > mount -t iso9660 dev/hdb1 mnt/cdrom Try mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt if your cdrom is the second devive on the first controller. hd is for isa; hdaX and hdbX for the first controller hdcX and hddX for th

Re: kernel-package/kernel-image was Re: New kernel packages available

> > > I don't like dependencies, and kernel-patch is one extra to build the > > > images. The kernel-image packages is from the method the same as for > > > i386 and alpha. Without the dependencies we must not play with debhelper, > > > kernel-package and other possible buggy packages. > > > > I

Re: package update lag on powerpc

> I feel like I've answered this question a thousand times > > There is a build daemon now, but only for potato, and I do not have not now, i've setup one for powerpc from mid 1998 > time to fix all of its failures by hand. There are also packages

Re: List of Web pages explaining concrete installs?

> For installing Debian on a laptop, I find this list: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ > > absolutely mandatory. The laptop I'm installing Linux on is almost always > there, with a lot of details, real XF86config, etc. > > Is there something like that for the Macintoshe

Re: New QUIK; Please test it

> That's one of the broken versions of the quik source; it won't work at > all (tries to open /dev/sda0 all the time). Cort has a 2.0-0c > available that is a bit better, but it still needs several patches. > I'm in the process of fixing it up to work on my machine and feeding > patches back to C

Re: swap partitions

> I now have the base system booting but the base installer appears to have not > changed the base /etc/fstab to include my swap partitions. I activated them > in the installer though. Could some body please send me a example line for > a swap partition as i can not remember for the life of me wh

New QUIK; Please test it

Hi, i have a new quik package on master uploaded (in my ~). Please test it. http://master.debian.org/~koptein/quik_2.0-3_powerpc.deb -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hartmut Koptein EMail: Friedrich-van-Senden-Str. 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26603 Aurich

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

> I did try kernel-image packages; I found that kernel-patch worked much > better. I've rewritten its rules almost from scratch. If you really > want to stick with kernel-image, I suppose that's OK, but there's no I don't like dependencies, and kernel-patch is one extra to build the images. The

Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

> Is Yaboot required ? I assume this is the equivalent of lilo on a x86 > machine. yaboot is more like loadlin; quik is the equivalent for lilo.

Re: confused by yaboot

> you should also setup a /etc/yaboot.conf file, mine is like this: ^ Benjamin: is this fixed now for powerpc's with msdos fs-type? Two solutions: yaboot reads also yaboot.con or rename it to yaboot.cfg Thanks, Hartmut

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

> In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc Why not the kernel-image-xxx package? kernel-patch is obsolete. The control with the kernel-image package is much better then with the kernel

Re: w3m

> THere is a version on libgc distributed togheter with w3m. It requires 2 > small changes in Makefile and one in some header file and w3m compiles and > runs prefectly ok (i've been using it for days). I was meaning to write to Please send a diff to the maintainer and to this list. Thanks,

Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

> When I try and run "./mozilla", it starts, and then stops w/ the > error: "./mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libelf.so.0: cannot > open > shared object file: No such file or directory " Obviously this (or atleast > seems > like) a dependency error. I have libelf installed (I r

Re: progress report on debian/powerpc/apus boot-floppies.

Sven, > Anyway, i noticed that baseconfig.c is bad, the Arch2 should read Amiga, not > APUS, that is way amiga-fdisk is not called. What is the meaning of the > NAME_ISEXE ? should it not be better to check if fdisk is working ok, before > trying to call cfdisk ? Or at least have some kind of vari

Re: console-data

> What is the status on the console-data fix..? I don't mean to be > pushy, but dselect won't finish installing the X packages (including > netscape, enlightenment, etc) so I'm stuck running afterstep and > lynx...:-) > Is there something I could test..? my $arch = `dpkg --print-installat

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> > Replace this part in the console-data.config file. > > (/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config). > > Thanks for posting it, but it still fails on me :( Atleast it's a different > error: no keymaps described > for architecture powerpc/mac i assume this ^^^ is correct!?

Re: architecture not supported (sigh)

> Its just a bug in the boot-floppies more then anything. There are some > steps you can follow to make the install happen. They require that you > either have a realnetwork(tm) or somefreetime(tm) or a linuxppc cd. > > I sent someone some directions on how to do this / to get potato working,

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> > usb is not available on every powerpc machine. We fixed console-data > > yesterday, lets hope this will doit what we want for potato. > > Could you please post the definitive fix? I tried the fix posted yesterday, > and > it still gave me errorsor are you just going to update the consol

Re: architecture not supported (sigh)

> i am trying to run debian on a g3 notebook and i did as follows: > > 1. downloaded kernel, drivers, base2_2.tgz, bootx, etc... > 2. booting does not work, doenloaded g3 linux from linuxppc.org > 3. rename root.bin to ramdisk.image.gz > 4. booting now does work, it even loads the ramdisk >

Re: Debian Potato PowerPC disks-powerpc

> Can anyone think of why PowerPC's boot disks for potato should still > be in sid? I would think if PPC was gonna try and make it in the potato > release it should be in potato not sid... Or am I missing somethin from the > big picture? We move powerpc from sid to potato at the end of the

Re: PowerPC Kernel installs

> Apologies since I haven't yet file a bug report or fixed the kernel-image > packages installer to not attempt to use quik on PReP systems. I'm trying > but am low on time and swimming in email. :-/ > > Anybody care to fix this? sure :-) i'm working on 2.2.14 now, not very easy to create an c

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

Hi, > That's right, does this card show up on /proc/pci ? My builtin USB shows > up ... > > > So at least leave a way to bypass whatever suggestion is going to be made > > because of this test. > > Seems Hartmut found another way, no reason to worry. Sorry, not for usb; the architecture/subar

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> No machine: line here. I suggest the PowerPC port add /proc/hardware to > the kernel (the machine: stuff isn't strictly info about the CPU). Or read > /proc/device-tree/model for the model ID (on PowerMac models at least). > More info in /proc/device-tree/aliases (see adb-mouse, adb-keyboard, > u

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

Hi all, as you all may know, the console-data arch-detection routine is broken. Powerc and m68k need some tests, i've not changed any of the m68k code, it is the source from console-data.config. For the tests: #!/usr/bin/perl -w my $arch = `dpkg --print-architecture`; $arch =~ s/\n//;

Re: Kernel rev12 online

> It's at http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/test.html as usual. > > The amd problem no longer happens on my box. > > New with this release: > >- Removed code that reads nvram for default mode on Rage 128 (broken) >- Fixed various PowerBook media-bay,IDE & snooze issues >-

Re: How did you get X running in Debian PowerPC?

> > Unfortunately, the feeling out there seems to be that Debian PowerPC > > is at best unstable and only for pionners, and at worse that it's > > hacked on a LinuxPPC distribution. > > Well, LinuxPPC is the distribution that's "hacked on" top of someone > else's: Red Hat. We may have borrowed co

Re: How did you get X running in Debian PowerPC?

> >In general, how did the people with running Debian ppc boxes manage > > to get X up and running? I still can't get Xpmac to work, and if I > > switch to XF68_FBDev, there's no tool to generate a valid XF86Config file > > I could find. Since Debian PowerPC is about to get released very soon,

Re: Installing Debian over DHCP

Hi all, here are so many good ideas and hints and tips, why not testing yourself the current boot-floppies cvs and send patches? You know it all: debian is a free and 'open' project. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > you don't need to unless you are installing the base system from NFS! > > dbootstr

Blender

Hi, i will build a new blender package. What was the problem with the old one? Thanks, Hartmut

Re: 2.2.4 boot-floppies and powerpc/apus subarch.

> > * in utilities/libfdisk/fdisk.c,1030 : MAX_DISKNAME_LEN is not defined, > >anyone knows what is wrong here ? I defined it to 11 to test the rest of > >the bootfloppies. > > My fault, I think. This also happened on Alphas. MAX_DISKNAME_LEN > *should* be defined for all architectures

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

> There's a seperate kernel-headers package which installs all the exported > headers into /usr/include/linux. Quite a lot of glibc relies on these at the no, /usr/include/linux is not a sym-link and it comes from the glibc package. The 'seperate kernel-headers package' is to be installed in /u

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

> > Many thanks also for the other people that will do some tests. > > I echo my question of where ones newer than October are publicly available. Net yet, sorry. We must first generate new kernel-iamges. > > For kevin: your mail-address isn't reachable. > > What did you get? [EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian Linux/PPC on G4.

> > > >- not contain JDK1.X, > > > > True. No one who cares enough about the non-free JDK has put in the > > effort yet. > > Yes, but potato for i386 contain JDK 1.1.7 ! I asked the debian jdk maintainer, if he could upload also the powerpc version. He said he will doit for a month, but

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

> Before I file more bug reports, I thought I'd see whether other > people are having the same issues I'm having. Wow, many problems :-) > 1. gdm locks up the keyboard when started at boot time. > >X starts, gdm comes up, the mouse works, but you can't type. >Which also means you can't s

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

> > > > Which rs/6k is chrp, which one is prep??? > > IIRC 40P / 43P brand names cover a wide range of workstations, > > 40P was a pre release PC like workstation and should be PReP > > 7248-100,7248-120,7248-132 are PReP and boot a PPC kernel > > 7043-140,7043-240 should still be PReP, but

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

> I've tested the instlation floppies on a mac8500. Ahh, good. > Currently the rescue floppy is unreadable. > > when you fdflush /dev/fd0 it gives you error 115 Hmmm, this is a new bug. > When you install the base system, it reads the first floppy you stick in > the computer just fine, but aft

RS/6000 and other systems

> i'm starting soon on ppc too and collect some basic infos for my > 7248-133 (i.e rs6000 43p). i guess yours is a simmilar machine and what > you need is in http://www.debian.org/~porter/ for PPreP systems. if not, > i'm out of info... We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies.

Re: bug #52033: __linux is not defined on powerpc

> I fail to see why __linux is undefined for linux-powerpc. however this > bug should not be considered important, because it's easy to fix in > the xviewg-dev package. The problem is not that it is undefined for powerpc, the problem is, that it is defined for the other archs.

Re: SSH

> Is there an SSH package for debian-ppc ? > > I need to use bitkeeper which requires ssh. When I tried "apt-get install > ssh", I got an error about an existing reference but no actual package to > download. ssh is in the non-us section. Use this in your /etc/apt/source.list # deb file:/your/m

Congrat to Daniel Jacobowitz

Congratulation to Dan!! He cracked the crack.linuxppc.org machine.

Re: Building Kerberos

> > It would also be nice if these packages could be updated to the latest > > upstream (0.10.1). I submitted this, but the BTS seems to have eaten it - I > > can get to it by #52178 but I haven't heard a reply and it's not showing up > > in > > the package's page. Oh well, that I certainly can

Re: Xpmac

> > Does someone plain to add the Xpmac server in debian-powerPC ?? > > > > I doubt it, since that was a somewhat nonstandard server (requires it's own > > kernel config option). Why do you want it? Why not just use XF86_FBDev? > > Because, i want to connect a external monitor on my PB ! > It's wo

[mkoz@umich.edu: Debian PPC disks]

ron Ann Arbor, MI 48104 please let me know which ever way things go. thanks. Matt O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mkoz - End forwarded message - -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hartmut Koptein EMail: Friedrich-van-Senden-Str. 7

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

> >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: RS6K PReP boot?

> the DOS floppy boot: PReP kernels don't appear to even start and CHRP > images hang after "copying OF device tree..." (sometimes before "done"). ^^ Bah! This stupid problem ... no actual 2.2.x doesn't work on chrp, and also 2.3.x are broken -- not all,

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> > # powerpc/apusamiga "Model: Amiga" > > # powerpc/chrpi386,mac"Model: CHRP" > > # powerpc/pmacmac "Model: > PowerMac|[Pp]ower[Bb]ook*|Power|iMac*|PowerMac1*" > > # powerpc/prepi386"Model: PReP" > > # powerpc/{bbox,mbx,ppc64,82xx,8xx} Not yet suppor

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> # Subarches > # FIXME: not done > # Issues: > # * ppc issues not fully asserted yet > # * /proc/hardware, which only exists on m68k and ppc, seems to be > # an OPTION while configuring the kernel ! > # Any fallback when it's not there ? > # * USB set of keymap should contain what ? mac ? i386

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> If you don't use XKB, XFree86 queries the kernel for the current keymap (it > traverses all keycodes and modifiers and asks for their mapping). Hence the > keymap will automagically be correct (assumed it's correct in the console). > > That's one reason to not use XKB :-) That's the theory, b

Re: iMac kernel?

> The features I want (please tell me if you want more) are: > > - hfs, hfs+, iso and ext2 support for loading the kernel and an eventual please msdos also ... > install ramdisk from hard disk and CDs. > - can be used to make bootable CDs (newworld only) > - graphical (hum... later...) > -

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> And what about CHRP, PreP ? I guess some of them may only exist > as serial-console ? > > #elif #cpu (powerpc) > struct d_choices keymaps[]={ > { "i386/qwerty/us", "U.S. English (QWERTY)" , KBD_C}, ... > { "mac/mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys", "Germany (Mac)" , 0}, > { "m

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> As you may have seen from recent bug reports ;), I'm currently adding > support for debconf-driven keymap choice to console-data and friends, > but need the following help for ppc/m68k machines: > > * what sub-architectures are there for each arch ? > My guess: m68k -> atari, amiga, sun, next(

Re: iMac & XF86Config

> Well, I've been working at it all week, and I think I've finally got potato > up and running on my iMac. Well, with one (rather large) exception: X! > > Since there is no Debian PPC utility for generating an XF86Config file, > I've been searching around the net for one. The best I found was: Ah

Re: what about potato boot-floppies for powerpc/apus ?

> potato will be freezing soon, or at least so they say, so it is time to add > some kind of install stuff for apus also. A little bit late, ehhh? I asked serveral times for this, but without any help this port is for the next release. > What about the kernel ? There are two problems with it :

Re: Blackhawk problems

> Bad BogoMIPS calculation? saytime and mp3blaster play sounds at a really > high pitch. My 604/133 is reported as 266 BogoMIPS, which doesn't seem > right. 266 is a good value for 604e with 133 MHz. It is nearly factor 2 (1.99). 200 MHz gives nearly 400 (398), and my 233 MHz gives me 46

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

> another data point: chrp appears to have problems with the new gcc. No, it isn't gcc2.95, it is the kernel, the 2.2.x one. 2.3.x will boot, but the curent kernel versions are so buggy with so many compile errors :-(( > using franz sirl's gcc 2.95.2 (0h), 2.2.12 (specifically, cort's 19990903 >

Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken

> The autobuilder built whiptail (which is within the newt source package) > against newt0.30 while it was building libnewt 0.50. Nice chicken or egg > problem, eh? I uploaded new binaries to master yesterday which are correctly > linked against newt 0.50. It is already fixed: isis:~# dpkg -s w

Re: X

> > Well, I got the base system plus most of the common packages > > installed. Went quite smooth. But - X does provide for a bumpy > > experience. Well, tI=ve gotten nowhere. > > Yes. Of course, I had a tarball of my old /etc when I switched to Debian from > LinuxPPC, so I used my old XF86Config

Re: Newbie Debian Questions

> I've been investigating the possibility of getting some form of Linux up > and running on my rev. A iMac for about a week now. Unfortunately, my > knowledge of *nix is weak, having never seriously worked with the OS. As > you all know, the learning curve for *nix is steep and I've been having > q

Re: Anyone working on gcc 2.95.2?

> version my fixes need to change. va_copy() is no longer available, > just __va_copy() yet that doesn't work pre 2.95.2. Argghhh. Looking > at the history of the varargs problems I feel like 2.95.2 is the light at > the end of the tunnel...I hope I'm right. __va_copy() is that what we've used

Re: Anyone working on gcc 2.95.2?

> Oops, I've gotten behind again :) > > I'm generally the one who fixes this. I'll sit down with the toolchain > tonight if I'm feeling a little healthier. Please add also the patch for 'short' varargs. Bug#46819 Thanks, Hartmut

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

> >My beige G3 contains "Power Macintosh" in the "model" property, My wallstreet > >PowerBook contains "PowerBook" and an iMac I have here returns "iMac". > > > >I beleive you should also check the device tree's "compatible" property and > >look for "MacRISC", I think all PowerMacs have this one (I

Re: Here's the deal.

> The current [root.bin and "linux"] gives me, as I said, an error about a > not supported architecture. > That should be fixed with the new boot-floppies from Incoming ... if not, then mail us your /proc/cpuinfo. Thanks for your testing. Hartmut

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

> >Once you can get to OF, it'd be: > >'boot fd:linux load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram' (I think). > > > >To boot with bootx, copy root.bin into the same folder as the bootx > >app itself and rename it to ramdisk.image.gz, you also need the linux > >kernel image, which should be plac

Re: X patches

> Hello all. I was wondering where I could pickup the various patches used > on Debian/PPC to make X work? I'd like to compare patches (Trying to > cleanup/fix X 3.3.5, last "update" caused some problems..). Thanks. Debian src-packages are different to rpm src-packages (srpm). srpm often inclu

Re: netbase doesn't build

> I can't get the binary package in the archive to install because > /bin/ping6 is missing. Trying to compile the source I get: A known problem, i've build it with this error, because we need the new layout of /etc/init.d/networking and some other stuff around it. I'll build a new one in the nex

Re: Request a powerpc compilation of libforms0.89

> 1) debian/control needs to have architecture=any instead of i386 any is for all architectures, if its limitated to i386 and powerpc the control file has to be then: Architecture: i386 powerpc Greetings, Hartmut

Re: Unrecognized emulation mode 'elf32ppclinux'

> I haven't been able to compile anything for a while, and it's driving me > batty. Here's what configure returns: > > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppclinux > > ii binutils2.9.1.0.25-2 The GNU assembler, linker and binary > utiliti > ii binutils-dev2.9.1.0.25

Re: what about cdrecord ?

> > > I have recompiled the kernel (APUS 2.2.10) with #define SHMMAX > > > 0x200, but now the system hangs when I try to write an image in > > > xcdroast. Are there other parameters to adjust, too? Or is this an > > > APUS specific problem? > > > > Reliable CD recording is something of a black

Re: Netscape for Debian/PPC

> Just to let you know: the new complete Netscape rpm for LinuxPPC (as it > was announced in the linux-pmac list) does convert to .deb quite nicely. > Since I had several problems with wrong library versions with Netscape's > versions of Netscape, so I was quite positively surprised by the now > ru

Re: update-menus going higher and higher

> > > > > These day update-menus seems to hang, causing infinite load averages > > > > > when doing > > > > > `apt-get upgrade -u'. > > > > > > > > i think it isn't a infinite loop, it is (sometimes) very recursivly but > > > > it will > > > > end after 5 - 20 minutes. > > > > > > Well... at

Re: update-menus going higher and higher

Hi Geert, > These day update-menus seems to hang, causing infinite load averages when > doing > `apt-get upgrade -u'. i think it isn't a infinite loop, it is (sometimes) very recursivly but it will end after 5 - 20 minutes. ciao, Hartmut -- I see a little light at the end of the tunne

Re: /etc set o-r?

> I performed an upgrade yesterday and suddenly found /etc was no longer > readable by other (751). Is this a bug or a feature? And how would I > go about seeing exactly which package caused this problem? Seems it > could have been alot of things. > > BTW I didn't have this problem in the Inte

Re: Argh, PAM/login problem

> Greetings, I'm having a bit of trouble with non-root user accounts on my > freshly installed Potato. > > I created a new account, eg nick with useradd, and logged into it, at which > time I was > prompted for a new password. Fine I thought, makes sense. I changed it, and > then logged > into

Re: HURD on ppc

> I didn't see this in the archives, so I'd thought I'd ask: > > Is anyone working on/thinking of porting HURD to powerpc? A 'port' is on the way or allready available, but not (yet) for debian. This will be done after the release of potato. MfG, Hartmut

Re: xfree86-1_3.3.4 now compiles on powerpc, mach64 mess fixed, patch included.

> > And another mistake in the patch, should have waited a bit more before > > posting, > > but since i was going away, i wanted to make things available. > > > > Anyway, the build process breaks again læter, didn't have time to check it > > out > > though. > > > > So the correct patch for the

Re: bug reporting?

> Do I send mail to the BTS for bugs against powerpc? Or is that > effectively for the x86 maintainer only? No, the bug reporting/tracking system is open for all architectures as is debian for a long time now. If you hear anything others about this, please email me this then. > I've checked the

Re: console-apt

> > Chris, any thoughts on a non-experimental upload of binutils in the > > near future? Powerpc is somewhat broken at present. > > It's coming soon (probably this weekend). I have to test the latest out > with Alpha and ask Sparc to test it also (there have been some issues on > both that have

Re: Debian/PPC

> Hmm... OK, but I've actually had pretty good luck compiling them (at least I > was until dselect took me up to gcc 2.95.1 and binutils broke. It differs very much if you build a package on your own machine or by the auto-compiler. Often the package builds cleanly for the maintainer but fails ho

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

> > > Should i upload the X package i will build, or will the autobuilder > > > take care of it ? > > > > Upload it. > > Ok, i will do it. What is the problem with the mach64 stuff ? any relation > with > the sparc mach64 stuff recently added to the package ? Yes, it is a problem with Ben's pat

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

> Should i upload the X package i will build, or will the autobuilder > take care of it ? Upload it. > Also i noticed the following bug too : > > bahs$ vim > BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-runtime.c: 67: fixup: Assertion > `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 21' failed! > > Is it the same bug, or sh

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

> It shouldn't be difficult to modify the buildd package to check with > powerpc.debian.org (tervola) to check out packages to build and merge the > results back with tervola. Anybody real familiar with buildd and willing > to modify it? I think James Troup wrote it... Roman Hodek is the main a

Re: Debian/PPC

> I was wondering how / offering to build PPC binary packages from source > packages that are new or updated, since the PPC binaries seem to be (at least > sometimes) dated. I don't know what kind of scheme is used to track such > rebuilds, or if additional CPU juice is really needed (maybe I j

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

> Judging by the number of deb packages that compile fine but are out-of-date > in the PPC tree, is more CPU horsepower needed to auto-build? No need, one auto-builder is enough. > I don't know what the protocol for this is, but I would be more than willing > to run a debian-compiler instead of

Re: Anacron and xcdroast problem report

> What is BTS? Bug-Tracking-System

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

> I upgraded gcc to version 2.95.1-2 and I cannot build any binaries. > > This is error messages. > --- > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppclinux > Supported emulations: elf32ppc > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > --- > > So I c

Re: system working again...

> Building Dependency Tree... > Package emacs has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package. > E: Package emacs has no installation candidate The database(s) depen

Re: specific to Hartmut Koptein

>>> Your rs-6000 images > Okay, being the guy who *runs* sun4u.unicent.com, or what *was* > sun4u.unicent.com, I can explain.. > > My idiot employer doesn't know how to manage anything. Including > domains. So unicent.com came up for renewal, NOBODY knew, and it was > deleted. So sun4u.unice

Re: specific to Hartmut Koptein

>>> RS-6000 <<< > Okay, being the guy who *runs* sun4u.unicent.com, or what *was* > sun4u.unicent.com, I can explain.. > > My idiot employer doesn't know how to manage anything. Including > domains. So unicent.com came up for renewal, NOBODY knew, and it was > deleted. So sun4u.unicent.com is now

Re: specific to Hartmut Koptein

> >>as being active on the debian-powerpc list/developers and also perhaps > >>some experience with ibm-rs6000 and chrp-type motherboards. Yes, i have a chrp board. > >> > >>(1) the link on the debian web site for ibm rs6000 kernel images > >> > >>sun4u.unicent.com: /pub/linux/rs6000/ > >> > >>i

Re: /dev/adb and Batmon on Wallstreet G3

> Perhaps it was too presumptuous of me, but after grabbing Paul's new > kernel and getting sleep working, I wanted to see if I could access my > battery using Batmon et. al. No luck. > > Any ideas why I don't have a '/dev/adb', but do have '/dev/adb-'? cd /dev ; rm *- ; ./MAKEDEV adb

Re: time_t value too large (DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR August 16, 1999) (fwd)

> > FYI... I guess there's no longer a binary deb for tar 1.12 :-) > On http://powerpc.debian.org/~koptein/tar_1.12-7.1.deb is one. MfG, Hartmut

Re: Xautoconfig

> > I must have installed something wrong, I -still- find myself without > > any way to configure X. Could someone please do "dpkg -S Xautoconfig" > > and tell me what package you're getting it from? > > Xautoconfig is RedHatish-centric right now. I really would like to fix > this but I need a w

Re: potato's base is broken

> The version I referred to is: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/common/ This version is somewhat broken (mainly perl and the dbootstrap). It was a test-upload by me to see if all goes to the right place into the archive. I'll will upload a new version,

Re: Perl vs Apache -- dpkg loses

> > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:10:56PM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > > Now, I checked the bug list, and it says that the dependency problem for > > > apache-common on "perl" has been fixed, with apache-common_1.3.6-14. > > > Message date was July 12th. > > What stops You from using apache_1.3.6

Re: [ANN] BootX 1.1.2 released

> The new BootX is finally here, it's at > . Thanks for the new version. > Note to distribution makers (especially Debian): The archive is still > compressed with Stuffit (proprietary), I'm looking for a simple and > efficient way of compressing

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