Re: hamm upgrade

1999-05-17 Thread David Z. Maze
Mark Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MT> I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink). MT> I've got 2.1 on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on MT> the system. The problem I am having is getting "apt-get MT> dist-upgrade" to work. When I run the command (as root)

hamm upgrade

1999-05-17 Thread Mark Tucker
I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink). I've got 2.1 on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on the system. The problem I am having is getting "apt-get dist-upgrade" to work. When I run the command (as root) I get the following error message: Updating package s

hamm upgrade

1999-05-17 Thread Mark Tucker
I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink). I've got 2.1 on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on the system. The problem I am having is getting "apt-get dist-upgrade" to work. When I run the command (as root) I get the following error message: Updating package s

bo -> hamm upgrade failure

1999-01-30 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Sat Jan 30 10:19:03 1999 Hey, anyone know what's going on here?: [asimov] [/cdrom/debian/main/upgrade-i386] sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok E: Internal error, ScoredFix generated breaks. Exit 100 I'm using 0.1.4.bo. Btw,

rex -> hamm upgrade nearly tragic

1998-11-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Just upgrading a rex box direct to hamm, using apt from the /upgrades directory on the official CD. I told dselect to remove libreadline2, which it said was fine. apt them removed libreadline2, and installed libreadline2g, BEFORE upgrading bash. bash then didn't work, and bash couldn't be upgraded

Re: bo->hamm upgrade

1998-09-25 Thread john
Lazar Fleysher writes: > I have bo system installed and I have changed ISP and can not seem to > configure ppp to conect to it. Send me your scripts and the output of plog and I will try to help you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

bo->hamm upgrade

1998-09-25 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everyone, I need an advice on how to do it. The situation is the following: I have bo system installed and I have changed ISP and can not seem to configure ppp to conect to it. I can do it from a different machine and transfer files using floppies (sorry no network...) Could someone tell m

Re: sound module died in hamm upgrade

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Stutz
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: > I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound; > I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I > didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package, > which has been working f

sound module died in hamm upgrade

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Stutz
I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound; I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package, which has been working fine for a long time on this system. Anyone see thi

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > That did the trick! > > Thanks, > > Doug > > P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this was > moved into > its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right place. I'm not sure if this is what you are asking for, but 'd

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:14:17PM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this > was moved into its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right > place. /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.gz HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
That did the trick! Thanks, Doug P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this was moved into its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right place. Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > > /home/src/interpreter.c:851:

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HP" == Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HP> I think crypt is in a separate library, so you need -lcrypt on the link HP> line. No idea whether this changed between bo and hamm though. This is new in libc6 IIRC. Ciao, Martin

Re: GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > /home/src/interpreter.c:851: undefined reference to `crypt' > I think crypt is in a separate library, so you need -lcrypt on the link line. No idea whether this changed between bo and hamm though. HTH, Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~h

GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello all, Well, I seem to be having more problems then I expected after upgrading to hamm. This is probably someting simple except I can't seem to figure out where to start looking. I have a MUD which I have successfully compiled on my pre-upgraded bo system as well as some redhat & erven other

Re: fvwm95 after hamm upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty > well, though I did have the run the "install" portion of dselect > several times for it to get through without errors... Well, I'm impressed - I made a slight error

fvwm95 after hamm upgrade

1998-08-08 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty well, though I did have the run the "install" portion of dselect several times for it to get through without errors... Anyhow - Everything seems to have installed fine. But I have now noticed that my windows manager fvwm9

Re: PCMCIA modem problems after hamm upgrade

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
Just a little more info on this one: I have compiled all of the requisite parts of the kernel, and I even compiled them in directly rather than as modules, as I thought that might be part of the problem. > I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put > in the wrong directo

PCMCIA modem problems after hamm upgrade

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put in the wrong directory structure into dpkg-ftp and it completely corrupted my status file -- thank Gd for backups...). I've now updated all my packages to the versions in the stable hamm release, and have recompiled my kernel (2

cd_autoup.sh and hamm upgrade problems.

1998-07-23 Thread Clemmitt Sigler
Hi, I'm not subscribed to debian-user any more because of the volume, but please feel free to respond to me directly via e-mail if you have any questions, comments, etc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I helped a friend upgrade from bo to hamm yesterday over the phone. This is not easy in and of itself :^) B

RE: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-07-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Phil: Someone correct me if I'w wrong. I believe you have to run dselect to install the rest of the packages that autoup.sh removed Peter -Original Message- From: Phil Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 29, 1998 7:48 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hamm up

Re: Modem slowdown after hamm upgrade?

1998-06-30 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I too have noticed a ppp slow down on my bo system. A while back I updated a bunch of packages, and I think ppp was one of them. Here is what I think I know about that, even though I dont understand it. I think that /etc/ppp/options used to have: mru 542 That line is commented out in the most r

Modem slowdown after hamm upgrade?

1998-06-29 Thread Simon Blake
Hi there I've a dual PPro unit that has been a 33K6 PPP PAP dialin server for the last year (hamm for the last 3 months), and worked fine, so long as I ran pppd v2.2 - I kept the old binary lying around and just symlinked it back in after every ppp update from hamm, because the v2.3 binary didn't

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Phil Dyer wrote: > > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > fstream.h, string, list, etc). > > Doing a locate says they are nowher

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread dyer
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote: > > > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > > fstream.h, str

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote: > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > fstream.h, string, list, etc). Have you run the res

hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Phil Dyer
I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, fstream.h, string, list, etc). Doing a locate says they are nowhere on the system. Is there a pac

bo --> hamm upgrade..

1998-06-28 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I find a lot of small changes, logs moved from (non-existent) /var/adm, to /var/logs, pppd argument changes, ppp setup changes, etc.. It took a bit of fiddling to bet the system re-working. E.g. pppd now needs a "noauth" argument, files have moved, etc.. Is there a list of these changes, structu

RE: Hamm upgrade to Slink

1998-06-10 Thread timothy
Thus far I have simply installed any slink packages that were not available for my hamm system (tya, karpski, xteddy, libc6-dev etc), and everything has worked fine. Does anyone know otherwise? Timothy On 10-Jun-98 Randy Edwards wrote: > Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the rout

Re: Hamm upgrade to Slink

1998-06-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Both hamm and slink are libc6-based so the upgrade should be quite painless. If a package does not work for you, you always can revert to the version in hamm easily. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNX55WSqK7IlOjMLFAQFXQAP/

Hamm upgrade to Slink

1998-06-10 Thread Randy Edwards
Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the routine of playing with new packages on my home system. :-) So I was playing with the idea of upgrading to slink and running that. Unlike the upgrade from bo to hamm, I can find no docs/readme's on a hamm to slink upgrade. Can someone who is

PLEA FOR HELP! /usr/lib/crt1.o problems after hamm upgrade

1998-06-02 Thread servis
Hi all, This is a second attempt at trying to get this issue resolved and an update, so please excuse some repetition. I upgraded to hamm over the weekend(using autoup.sh). After the upgrade I removed all devel packages to get a clean start. My first goal was to compile a new kernel. So I inst

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-06-02 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks guys for your help! I can't thank you enough!!! > Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing > root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a > ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the "boot:" prompt > from the rescue d

Re: hamm upgrade

1998-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Bob Nielsen wrote, I replied: > > Thanks for the reply. There were myriad things (fvwm* among them) that > wouldn't load as they depended on xlib6g which wasn't available. > > I ran and re-ran install and config and remove phases until my remainin

Re: hamm upgrade

1998-06-01 Thread Ralph Winslow
dded a few more packages, but there remain a large group of things which depend on xlib6g which isn't available. I remain very loathe to re-boot until I can get xlib6g. > > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > I just finished my bo -> hamm upgrade but havn

Re: hamm upgrade

1998-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > I just finished my bo -> hamm upgrade but havn't rebooted the system yet > because > during the upgrade, I couldn't install fvwm2 or fvwm95 and I'm afraid > that if I > re-boot, I may loose my X environment. Any advic

hamm upgrade

1998-06-01 Thread Ralph Winslow
I just finished my bo -> hamm upgrade but havn't rebooted the system yet because during the upgrade, I couldn't install fvwm2 or fvwm95 and I'm afraid that if I re-boot, I may loose my X environment. Any advice?? Auch, I see that my display mumble.jpg and xlock commands are

Re: Help: Can't config kernel after hamm upgrade!!!

1998-06-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have upgraded to hamm over the weekend and now I can't seem to config > the kernel(kernel-source-2 2.0.32-5 from hamm) for a recompile. > > 'make menuconfig' and 'make xconfig' fail with: > > /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first' >

Help: Can't config kernel after hamm upgrade!!!

1998-06-01 Thread servis
I have upgraded to hamm over the weekend and now I can't seem to config the kernel(kernel-source-2 2.0.32-5 from hamm) for a recompile. 'make menuconfig' and 'make xconfig' fail with: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first' /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undefined ref

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-06-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the "boot:" prompt from the rescue disk type: linux root=/dev/hda1 Substitute whatever

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-06-01 Thread Mark Phillips
I can help it!) Is there anyone in particular I should be sending this to? Waiting anxiously, Mark. -Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 21:15:53 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Help! Major cr

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-05-31 Thread Mark Phillips
Back again. I've tried a few more things and thought I should report what I've found. (In case you didn't read my earlier email - I've had a major crash while attempting to upgrade to hamm.) I have managed to boot under a rescue disc (I think it's a bo one). I copied e2fsck from my brother's c

Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-05-31 Thread Mark Phillips
The last few days I have been upgrading to hamm. I rebooted my computer and it died badly. Instead of coming up with lilo, it repeatedly typed: LI LI LI LI LI LI ...etc down the screen. It looks like the boot sector has been corrupted or something like that, but I don't know what I've done wh

/usr/lib/crt1.o problems after hamm upgrade

1998-05-30 Thread servis
Hi all, I just finished an upgrade to hamm and I am having problems. The first thing I decied to do was compile a new kernel. So I download the kernel-2.0.32 source package. When I 'make menuconfig' it breaks with /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first' /usr/lib

Hamm upgrade

1998-05-28 Thread Richard Sevenich
Thanks to the several folks who helped me with several post-upgrade problems. These were related to getting my old libc5-compiled versions of Applix and Netscape running. Although a libc6 version of Netscape is available, I wanted to not spend money for a newer Applix even if available at least at

Re: Hamm Upgrade Failure - problem with dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb

1998-05-27 Thread Bob Hilliard
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # dpkg --info ../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb > dpkg-deb: `../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb' is not a debian > format archive > > What's wrong? I can't upgrade anything using dselect as a result of this > bug. Try getting dpkg

Hamm Upgrade Failure - problem with dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb

1998-05-27 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to upgrade to Hamm. I have run the autoup script, I think successfully. Now I am trying to run deselect to upgrade everything else, but it bombs out when I try to install, complaining that: Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ... /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/dpkg

Re: Can't find bo->hamm upgrade instructions.

1998-04-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mark Phillips wrote: >I am currently running a bo system, but want to upgrade to hamm. I >think I have read that upgrading to hamm requires special care and >involves taking special steps. I was under the impression that there >existed documentation that would explain all this, however I

Can't find bo->hamm upgrade instructions.

1998-04-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am currently running a bo system, but want to upgrade to hamm. I think I have read that upgrading to hamm requires special care and involves taking special steps. I was under the impression that there existed documentation that would explain all this, however I have searched a debian mirr

Re: pam, ppp broken after dpkg-ftp hamm upgrade

1998-04-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Britton wrote: > Is this the expected behavior? If so, what is the accepted way to tell > these packages to configure themselves, or each other, or whatever? > Thanks. Have you tried to put them on the same commandline like this: dpkg -i libs/libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb admin/li

pam, ppp broken after dpkg-ftp hamm upgrade

1998-04-01 Thread Britton
I had installed the essential files seperatly as per the instructions in libc6 HOWTO. I hope it was safe to then use dpkg-ftp (which stopped seg faulting after I removed a dangling ncurses sym link) to try to ease the upgrade of other packages, because this is what I tried to do. Many packages

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Don Erickson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > The only thing the libreadlineg2 postinst does is ldconfig. I >suggest you run ldconfig and see what error it complains about. This >is most likely a dangling symlink. Removing the dangling symlink >often cures the problem. If the ldconfig error

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Actually, the best way to install 2.0, AFAICT and IMHO, is to use the >brand-new 2.0 install disks. You can find them in the usual archives >in the disks-i386 distribution. Would that be: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/current/ And t

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write: > Actually, the best way to install 2.0, AFAICT and IMHO, is to use the > brand-new 2.0 install disks. You can find them in the usual archives > in the disks-i386 distribution. That is unquestionably the best way, if the disks work on your machine, howeve

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
I got A LOT of problems when trying to upgrade, my lack of response the past few days is because I was fixing my box. :) Well, this is the 'best' way to upgrade to glibc2, unfortunately, it is a very undesirable solution. Install 1.3.R6 fresh, THEN as dselect come

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Damascus
I got A LOT of problems when trying to upgrade, my lack of response the past few days is because I was fixing my box. :) Well, this is the 'best' way to upgrade to glibc2, unfortunately, it is a very undesirable solution. Install 1.3.R6 fresh, THEN as dselect comes up, cancel, a

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Don Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been having a heck of a time upgrading a 1.3.1 bo (originally 1.2) > system to hamm using autoup. Everything is installed up to libreadlineg2 > in the autoup script, then libreadlineg2's post install script bombs out > and leaves the system in an es

broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Don Erickson
Hello, I've been having a heck of a time upgrading a 1.3.1 bo (originally 1.2) system to hamm using autoup. Everything is installed up to libreadlineg2 in the autoup script, then libreadlineg2's post install script bombs out and leaves the system in an essentially unusable state (nearly everythi

hamm upgrade gone sour -cry for help

1998-03-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Yesterday I decided to take the plunge I ftp'd the entiret of the hamm/binary-i386 directory and with a little bit of directory setup... burned it onto a CD I then brough tit home from work and updated my bo system to a hamm system I first mounted the CD and used autoup.sh (latest version) from

Re: cron fails following hamm upgrade

1998-02-21 Thread David Stern
sya) > localhost crontab[971]: (kotsya) END EDIT (kotsya) > localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) > localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d) > > One thing that seems unusual is that there is no /etc/cron.d, as syslog > complains (above), s

cron fails following hamm upgrade

1998-02-21 Thread David Stern
TARTUP (fork ok) localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d) One thing that seems unusual is that there is no /etc/cron.d, as syslog complains (above), so I'm wondering if this may have resulted from the hamm upgrade. I've reviewd the upgrade document, but see no me

Re: Hamm upgrade woes

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, you wrote: > Many packages didn't install, and some could not be removed > (timezone, wg15-locale, etc). I manually > removed the packages the script didn't, then ran autoup.sh again, What version of autoup.sh did you use? The most recent is v0.19. The problems you

Hamm upgrade woes

1998-02-12 Thread Russ Cook
Hello All, Yesterday I took the plunge, and tried to upgrade my Bo system to Hamm via the autoup.sh script found at the Debian web site. I specified ftp to acquire the new files, and let the script run with defaults to ftp.debian.org. My system was 2.0.31 kernel, with libc6 and libc5-c

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:18:18 EST, Scott Ellis wrote: > http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 Well, you helped me to figure it out. The problem was my preceeding forward slash before the directory name. It doesn't seem to matter if I use hamm or dists/unstable, just

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know why that didn't work, but all is well if you use /dists/unstable instead of /hamm: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... Getting Packages file from dists/unstable/main/binary-i386... Getting Packages file from dists/

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | > ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was > through I rebooted and life was

following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread David Stern
Hi, I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was through I rebooted and life was good. Good work, Debian Team. :-) Then I restarted dselect and decided to upgrade /hamm/non-free and /hamm/contrib, b

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, David Gaudine wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > > > > > Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have > > > a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config > > > which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read >

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > > > > > Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have > > > a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config > > > which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read > > > 's

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread David Gaudine
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > > > Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have > > a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config > > which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read > > 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'. I have the same (o

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Thanks, that fixed it. On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: > > [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: > > 'localhost' ] > > > > I have 'localhost'

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Adam Klein
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: > [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ] > > I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to > send the message through

errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I performed the hamm upgrade using Craig's script (all went fine) and letting dselect do it's thing. I had a scare when e2fsck wouldn't work after I rebooted, but was able to install a few remaining packages and get it to work. I have two remaining problems (at least until I try

Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

1998-01-09 Thread Jaakko
>> >> My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the >> steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I >> decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded >> 60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through >> a couple of pas

Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

1998-01-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maria Lynn Jason Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly >INIT: version 2.73 booting >INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot" >INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Do the following: - boot the system with -b added on the LILO command

Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

1998-01-08 Thread Stephen Gregory
Can you say boot disk? For a boot disk I use the Debian install boot disk. From dos you can edit the syslinux.cfg file to mount the correct disk as root. (and you can disable the ramdisk if you need to.) Useing the boot disk will not fix things but you should be able to log on and get a look thing

Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

1998-01-08 Thread Maria Lynn Jason Rightley
My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded 60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through a couple of passes of "Install" a

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 09:30:56PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to > > reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER > > ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. > >Well, although nearly fatal, I

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how > many things it broke. It broke things "real good." :-) Since I did Yup. :) > have a spare partition on this machine I went ahead and used an old copy > of Debian 1.2 and installed

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-28 Thread Randy Edwards
Scott K. Ellis wrote: > Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to > reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER > ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't have to do a complete reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 a

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html > >Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing > libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential > libc5 package

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Randy Edwards
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential libc5 package first or force the installation of libc6 in addition to

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 01:14:56PM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo > > system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or > > so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assist

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread hawk
>Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo > system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or > so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance > would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. You can find the

bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. Regards,

Re: wtmp, last wrecked (bo->hamm upgrade)

1997-11-24 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: > > I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system > > works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is > > broken. [...] > The format of the utmp/wtmp file has changed between libc5 and libc6. The > version

Re: wtmp, last wrecked (bo->hamm upgrade)

1997-11-24 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Peter Gervai wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system > works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is > broken. 'login', 'sysvinit' packages are the new ones, but 'last' writes > complete garbage, and

wtmp, last wrecked (bo->hamm upgrade)

1997-11-24 Thread Peter Gervai
Hello, I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is broken. 'login', 'sysvinit' packages are the new ones, but 'last' writes complete garbage, and a slight view at wtmp shows something different than