Re: dpkg 1.8.1.2 gives SIGBUS on sparc

2001-01-12 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I've narrowed down the offending code to this 40k patch. Note, it has nothing to do with the zlib using code, since I already tried compiling --without-zlib, and it still gives a sigbus. If I take this patch and do a -R with it on a 1.8.0 tree, and

Re: error upgrading libc6-dev on sparc

2001-01-11 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:56:23AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: I got this on my sparc, but I'm not sure if it's a sparc only problem. When upgrading to recent unstable, using apt, it got to unpacking libc6-dev, where dpkg died with a Bus error.

Re: error upgrading libc6-dev on sparc

2001-01-11 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well a SIGBUS is not a problem in the package, it is either dpkg, or your computer's fault. Possibly libc6's fault, but I doubt it. Can you two provide me more info on your systems? libc6 version, kernel version, CPU type (sun4m, sun4u, sun4c,

Re: dpkg 1.8.1.2 gives SIGBUS on sparc

2001-01-11 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I originally thought it was a kernel issue from a user. Then when it happened to be, I thought it was a kernel issue. After trying out an older kernel, known to work well, I thought it was libc6, then I find out that dpkg 1.7.2 works perfectly well. So

Re: dpkg 1.8.1.2 gives SIGBUS on sparc

2001-01-11 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Previously Ben Collins wrote: Sparc users, keep your old dpkg on hold, don't upgrade it. No, do upgrade it and try to figure out where exactly it goes wrong. See my original mail to debian-devel and debian-sparc for a piece of the dpkg -D

sparc dpkg 1.8.1.2 error

2001-01-11 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Here my original mail now. I hope it can give you some idea to where the problem is. fwd To: Debian Devel List debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Debian-Sparc List debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: error upgrading libc6-dev on sparc From: Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi

Re: [kteague@sprocket.ddts.net: xserver-xsun drivers]

2000-12-12 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: www.xfree86.org doesn't seem to say anything at all about Sun drivers. On a vaguely related note, is there a way other than gpm to get sunmouse support under X4? I use: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse

error in installer

2000-11-13 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
I recently installed a potato from scratch. My partition setup was to have a small /boot and a larger /, plus a swap. Installation went just fine, and everything installed. I was asked to make the disk bootable, which I said yes to. When rebooting, it couldn't find the kernel. After booting the

Re: netscape and others ...

2000-10-18 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Tibor Simko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I run libc6 2.1.94-3, but I'm of course not completely sure it's glibc that's causeing the bus error, might be one of the other libraries. FWIW I was running an older version of libc6 with woody. As soon as I upgraded to libc6 2.1.95-1 the bus

Re: netscape and others ...

2000-10-16 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Tibor Simko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello When I upgraded my SS5 to latest woody, which means a new glibc, this version of netscape stopped working. I'm using `navigator-smotif-45_4.5-1_sparc.deb' which works well with woody; if I'm not wrong you can get it at

Re: netscape and others ...

2000-10-16 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Tomas Berndtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tibor Simko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello When I upgraded my SS5 to latest woody, which means a new glibc, this version of netscape stopped working. I'm using `navigator-smotif-45_4.5-1_sparc.deb' which works well with woody

Re: netscape and others ...

2000-10-13 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Gabor Zoltan Csejtey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may download netscape from their homepage: http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html Here choose Select platform and later SPARC Linux. They have it for 2.0 kernel but it works with 2.2 kernel too. You may install it under

Re: xserver-sun* breakage.

1999-09-03 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Paul Vojta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (using VT number 7) PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I also get this error message with the latest xserver-xsun from Debian unstable. I have an SS5 with one

Re: xserver-sun* breakage.

1999-09-03 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use /dev/fb0 in another program (fbview with oFBis, a framebuffer library) and that works just fine, so I don't understand why opening the /dev/fb0 would give EBUSY for the X server. What are the perms on /dev/fb0? 644, owner root group root. And

Re: xserver-sun* breakage.

1999-09-03 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:32:22PM +0200, Tomas Berndtsson wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use /dev/fb0 in another program (fbview with oFBis, a framebuffer library) and that works just fine, so I don't understand why opening

Re: GX Framebuffer support

1999-05-02 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Chris Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm about to buy a SS2 which has a gx framebuffer, which I didn't see listed at several sites as being a supported card, and was wondering if they are currently supported. The GX framebuffer card is also known as CGsix, and is supported by the kernel and

cvs problem

1998-12-06 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
I have a problem with cvs on a Sparcstation 5 running Debian. I don't know if the problem really is at my side though. I'm hooked up to the net via modem and when I run cvs update, it sends some data over the modem, but after a short while, before any updating takes place, the modem always hangs

Re: cvs problem

1998-12-06 Thread Tomas Berndtsson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 12:15:31PM +0100, Tomas Berndtsson wrote: net via modem and when I run cvs update, it sends some data over the modem, but after a short while, before any updating takes place, the Try doing a cvs -z3 update and see