Re: [NOTICE] libc6 problems (Re: libc and other things)

1999-05-05 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> So for the record, right now libc6 2.1.1-2 is broken for all Ben> sun4m arch's in the unstable dist, so please don't upgrade to Ben> it, if you have sun4m. Sun4[udc] are known to work perfectly Ben> fine. Unless running yo

Re: libc6 2.1.1, kernel 2.2.6 and Sun4m

1999-05-05 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> 2.2.7? I thought you had the same problem (or maybe it was Samuel> someone else, but it was posted on the list) as me, Samuel> i.e. 2.2.7 not booting on Sun4m. Nope. I posted that 2.2.7 was the lowest kernel with whi

Re: [NOTICE] libc6 problems (Re: libc and other things)

1999-05-05 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 5/05, Ben Collins wrote: | That's just not possible...been thought of, and there is no real | solution. I suggest for people testing _unstable_ to seriously consider | installing sash (a static compiled shell) and always keep .debs around | of a working libc6. Thanks for the advice, it's now

Re: libc6 2.1.1, kernel 2.2.6 and Sun4m

1999-05-05 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 5/05, Ben Collins wrote: | | Nope, it's due to some brokeness that we need to fix pronto, I am | uploading and one today in time for dinstall into the archive. The only | change is sun4m requiring >=2.2.7 kernel, this is until we find a | better solution. 2.2.7? I thought you had the same pro

[NOTICE] libc6 problems (Re: libc and other things)

1999-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:38:56AM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > May I suggest that we introduce a package named libc60 that could be > left installed to ease downgrading when/if we have problems with the > newest libc? That's just not possible...been thought of, and there is no real solution. I

Re: libc6 2.1.1, kernel 2.2.6 and Sun4m

1999-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:46:43AM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > On 4/05, Ben Collins wrote: > > | Was this the glibc 2.1.1-2? If so, it should have been fixed, I tested > | it myself on a sun4m/2.2.5(non-cvs) and Steven tested on a > | sun4m/2.2.1(stock debian image). If that's the case we need

Re: libc and other things

1999-05-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On 5 May 1999, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > May I suggest that we introduce a package named libc60 that could be > left installed to ease downgrading when/if we have problems with the > newest libc? Yes, please. Sanjeev "Gha

libc and other things

1999-05-05 Thread Samuel Tardieu
May I suggest that we introduce a package named libc60 that could be left installed to ease downgrading when/if we have problems with the newest libc? Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6 2.1.1, kernel 2.2.6 and Sun4m

1999-05-05 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 4/05, Ben Collins wrote: | Was this the glibc 2.1.1-2? If so, it should have been fixed, I tested | it myself on a sun4m/2.2.5(non-cvs) and Steven tested on a | sun4m/2.2.1(stock debian image). If that's the case we need to do some | quick fixing. Yup: glibc (2.1.1-2) unstable; urgency=low I

Kernel Image 2.2.7

1999-05-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Steve, I am running a 2.0.35 on a Sparc Classic, updated potato. Running well. I decided to compile/upgrade to 2.2.7, so downloaded kernel-source-2.2.7 Ran make-kpkg (took over a day to compile). Installed the .deb, and silo refused to boot (After uncompressing, machine stops at "Booting Linu

Re: KSH -- help

1999-05-05 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:12 -0400 1999-05-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, the one enigma. The (stock slink) KSH works fine but gives the following warning each time it is envoked: ksh: Symbol `sys_siglist' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking I downloaded the KSH (slink) source and recomp