Potato revision 2

2000-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, In the next day or so, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will be creating a list of show stoppers for potato revision two. This list will hopefully be maintained for future revisions, and be treated more or less as the release critical bug list has been during the freeze [0]. If there's

Re: compiling kernel ... and the trashing system

2000-11-19 Thread Esteban Osses A. Mag. 2000
well ... finally i compiled a new kernel (2.2.16) ommiting the 3com and a few other drivers that were causing me problems now my system is working ok and i haven't see it trashing again > You cannot use a 32bit compiler to create a 64bit kernel. i was sure it wasn't a good idea =) thanks a lot

Re: nightmare: apt slink->potato using cds

2000-11-19 Thread Brenda J. Butler
Allright, I've gotten rid of ip* from the cron.* directories. So presumably firewall stuff is not why named is failing (unless the current version depends on it? who knows) On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:25:18PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > 3) named doesn't seem to resolve even the localhost's

Re: nightmare: apt slink->potato using cds

2000-11-19 Thread Brenda J. Butler
Thanks to the people who helped me get past the "apt-get refusing the cd" problem. I had to change the contents of /var/state/apt/cdroms.list (otherwise known as the cdrom index file). Now I find that: 1) the depmod -a in the /etc/init.d gives a _lot_ of symbol not found warnings, because it k

Re: Help Starting on a SPARCstation2

2000-11-19 Thread Michael Hoye
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Sabino Maggi wrote: > > I've recently picked up the SparcStation 1, and while I make it all the > > way through the installation and partition the drive as per instructions, > > I cannot seem to boot into Linux. > > > > I reboot, and it gives me the same message it gave me wh

Re: Sparc 20 Quad 100 with 24Bit

2000-11-19 Thread Onno Benschop
At 13:36 17/11/00 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:28:20AM -0600, Chris Brandstetter wrote: > Anybody tried debian on a Sparcstation 20 with Quad 100MHz CPU's and the > 24Bit upgrade for the onboard FB? Does it work, and does it run 24Bit > Color, or 32Bit Color? I'm pretty

SunOS libraries for emulation

2000-11-19 Thread Q89029292
Hi, Does anyone on the list have a copy of the SunOS libraries and files necessary for emulation for SunOS 4.1.x? Thanks in advance, Peter Firmstone.

Re: sparcstation 10 w/ X

2000-11-19 Thread Q89029292
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Kovalchuk wrote: > the only thing that dmesg displays is : > fb0: cgsix at e.2000 TEC Rev 2 CPU 68020 Rev 7 [GX] > > what kinda frame buffer is this ? Its an 8 bit frame buffer with hardware accel, use xserver-xsun and she'll run fine. Regards, Peter Firmstone.

Re: sparcstation 10 w/ X

2000-11-19 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Jim Kovalchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001118 19:53]: > the only thing that dmesg displays is : > fb0: cgsix at e.2000 TEC Rev 2 CPU 68020 Rev 7 [GX] > > what kinda frame buffer is this ? A cg6 (aka. GX) is an 8-bit framebuffer. There are four variations of the card, but all are 8-bit only.

Re: Processes 1-6 Respawning Too Fast

2000-11-19 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Ben Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001118 19:23]: > > About every seven minutes, the following shows up in /var/log/syslog: > > > > Nov 18 15:55:06 starwalker init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled > > for 5 minutes > > This looks like the gettys might be doing this. Are you using this > mac

Re: Sparc 20 Quad 100 with 24Bit

2000-11-19 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001117 20:55]: > Might want to try the XF 4.0.1 xserver. It's a huge improvement for my > creator card. That would be impressive considering how much better the Creator 3D on my Ultra 1/170E performs over the cg14 on my SS20 2xSM71... but sure, I'll give it a whi

Re: compiling kernel ...

2000-11-19 Thread Ben Collins
> > so ... why this happens to me ??? =( There are some things inthe 3com driver that the compiler doesn't like. It's a known issue, but the fact is, it isn't getting fixed, that I know of. > is this related to the 64 bits compiler Yes > i've to install egcs64 before i start to compile, b