Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Philippe Troin: > > Change the "network:" line of /etc/nsswitch.conf from "files dns" to "files". > That should make it. > Now this is what I call a useful pointer! Thanks!, that did the trick... thanks a million!

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > Yep, it's a bug in xaw3d. Not exactly making your system unusable, since > it is easilly fixed. > Nor was I saying that it was unusable... I was saying, that if one intends to upgrade to a libc6 system, one needs to upgrade the entire base system.

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:34:52 EST Scott Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > > Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which I > > normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit timeout, bad > > line quality?'...

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > > > The problem is that linking a program with both libc6 and librarys linked > > with libc5 will produce problems. Programs that are linked this way > > should have bugs filed against them if they haven't been a

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which I > normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit timeout, bad > line quality?'... Okay, to be fair I never use diald, so I don't know what could be wrong here. >

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > The problem is that linking a program with both libc6 and librarys linked > with libc5 will produce problems. Programs that are linked this way > should have bugs filed against them if they haven't been already. Yes you > need to purge and reconstruct you

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
3.3.1 xlib6g3.3.1 xaw3dg 1.3-6 ncurses3.41.9.9g libc 5.4.33 libc 2.0.5c xpm xpm4g jpeg libjpegg6a gcc 2.7.2.3 libg++272 2.7.2.8 libpaperg 1.0.3 ghostview 1.5-16 gs

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > The reason I say, that you need to purge them (especially if you are > doing development), is because of... > > 0x401c6230 in malloc () > (gdb) bt > #0 0x401c6230 in malloc () > #1 0x401c6145 in malloc () > #2 0x401c12cc in fopen () > #3 0x80ab65b

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar James Troup: > > "Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> You can purge all libc5 programs, takes a trick or two though... > >> and it's the ONLY way to get a stable libc6 system. > > > I've been tracking hamm on

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > I beg to differ here. My machine runs sync'd to hamm, but I still use > several programs that are only libc5 (including netscape). Everything > works fine, although with Netscrape running my memory useage is a bit on > the cramped side. > The reason I

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar James Troup: > "Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You can purge all libc5 programs, takes a trick or two though... >> and it's the ONLY way to get a stable libc6 system. > I've been tracking hamm on several systems, ever since libc6 came out... and there

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread James Troup
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can purge all libc5 programs, takes a trick or two though... > and it's the ONLY way to get a stable libc6 system. Absolute rubbish. I've been running two systems and have access to a third which have been tracking hamm since it became hamm, al

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > > > NO! ABSOLUTLY POSITIVLY DO *NOT* PURGE LIBC5! YOU WILL TRASH YOUR SYSTEM > > BEYOND ALL HOPE OF REPAIR! > > > > What you do need to do if you're upgrading to

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > NO! ABSOLUTLY POSITIVLY DO *NOT* PURGE LIBC5! YOU WILL TRASH YOUR SYSTEM > BEYOND ALL HOPE OF REPAIR! > > What you do need to do if you're upgrading to a full hamm (unstable) > system is to use dpkg to purge th

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > and if you intend to use libc6 for future use and development, then > purge libc5 and all its remnants, as there *is* and will remain a conflict > between the two. NO! ABSOLUTLY POSITIVLY DO *NOT* PURGE LIBC5! YOU WILL TRASH YOUR SYSTEM BEYOND ALL H

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Daniel Doro Ferrante: > > After that email, I tried to upgrade 'tetex-bin' but I also got > the same message: seg fault in the pre-inst AND pos-inst scripts !!! I > can't figure out what is happening. I tried to use libc6 and libc5 in > different ways in order to find

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
mic linker, library and utilit On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:26:07 -0700 > From: Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Daniel Doro Ferrante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: ncurses3.4 > >

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-17 Thread Galen Hazelwood
The only thing that the ncurses3.4 postinst script does is run ldconfig. If your system is so messed up that ldconfig always seg faults, then god help you, because I can't. :) What versions of ld.so, libc5, and libc6 do you have installed? --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

ncurses3.4

1997-11-17 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All ! I have just tried to install ncurses3.4 (from unstable -> hamm/base) and when it gets to the post-installation script it gives me a segmentation fault. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan

Re: fixing a machine without ncurses3.4

1997-08-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Sue Campbell wrote: > I wanted the Gimp so I did some updating from unstable. > I missed libncurses3.4 though. My machine was left in an > crippled state (couldn't ftp out) so I thought I'd boot into > windoze to get the .deb. Unfortunately when booting back into Linux, > even

fixing a machine without ncurses3.4

1997-08-10 Thread Sue Campbell
I wanted the Gimp so I did some updating from unstable. I missed libncurses3.4 though. My machine was left in an crippled state (couldn't ftp out) so I thought I'd boot into windoze to get the .deb. Unfortunately when booting back into Linux, even in single user mode, I get 'sh: can't load libncurs

Re: ncurses3.4 deb file

1997-07-22 Thread Douglas Bates
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler kindly pointed out to me that ncurses3.4 is now in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base so I have solved that problem. Many of you know what the next question will be. Where do I find libreadlineg2? I don't see it in the ls-lR.gz file from ftp.debia

ncurses3.4 deb file

1997-07-22 Thread Douglas Bates
I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not available. The most important such package for me is gdb. Hamish Moffatt wrote to me earlier that ncurses3.4 was available in the Incoming section on

Re: ncurses3.4 not found

1997-07-16 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > the ncurses3.4 package is not available in the hamm version of Debian. > Where can I get this package? > It's still in Incoming on master. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Re: ncurses3.4 not found

1997-07-16 Thread joost witteveen
> the ncurses3.4 package is not available in the hamm version of Debian. > Where can I get this package? In master's incoming, or it's mirror: ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming > > -Paul > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

ncurses3.4 not found

1997-07-16 Thread Paul Miller
the ncurses3.4 package is not available in the hamm version of Debian. Where can I get this package? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-08 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Carey Evans wrote: >"Kevin M. Bealer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (clip) > >So you _do_ need the /lib/libreadline.so.2 link. bc in unstable is a >libc6 program, so it shouldn't be concerned with what is in the >libc5-compat directories. > >% dpkg -S libreadline.so.2 >libreadline2: /lib/libc5-comp

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-06 Thread Carey Evans
"Kevin M. Bealer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > $ bc > bc: error in loading shared libraries > libreadline.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > $ ldd -v `which bc` > ldd: version 1.9.2 > libreadline.so.2 => not found > libncurses.so.3.4 => /lib/

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-06 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Carey Evans wrote: >"Kevin M. Bealer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[snip] > >> Also, installing this packages causes dselect to get really excited >> about dependencies, since everything wants the old libreadline, and >> the new one doesn't want to coexist. What is the solution to this >> sort o

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-06 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Peter Mutsaers wrote: > I see a lot of packages appearing in unstable that depend on > ncurses3.4. But no packages providing it is available (only > ncurses3.0). > > Can anyone tell me where I can get ncurses3.4? > It still appears to be in Incoming on

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-05 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: > You can get it from ftp.i-connect.com, in Incoming, and info, et al > will run again. That's ftp.i-connect.net I believe. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-05 Thread Carey Evans
"Kevin M. Bealer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Also, installing this packages causes dselect to get really excited > about dependencies, since everything wants the old libreadline, and > the new one doesn't want to coexist. What is the solution to this > sort of thing? For now, I have l

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-05 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Peter Mutsaers wrote: >I see a lot of packages appearing in unstable that depend on >ncurses3.4. But no packages providing it is available (only >ncurses3.0). > >Can anyone tell me where I can get ncurses3.4? > >-- > /\_/\ >( o.o ) Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht),

ncurses3.4

1997-07-05 Thread Peter Mutsaers
I see a lot of packages appearing in unstable that depend on ncurses3.4. But no packages providing it is available (only ncurses3.0). Can anyone tell me where I can get ncurses3.4? -- /\_/\ ( o.o ) Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality ) ^ ( [EMAIL PROTECTED

ncurses3.4

1997-06-28 Thread Roy C Bixler
I have a system with the 'hamm' hierarchy packages installed. Several of the packages, including important ones like 'gdb' depend on 'ncurses3.4' but I cannot find this anywhere. I wonder why 'ncurses3.4' is not included in 'hamm'. Any poi

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
> I have a system with the 'hamm' hierarchy packages installed. Several of > the packages, including important ones like 'gdb' depend on 'ncurses3.4' > but I cannot find this anywhere. I wonder why 'ncurses3.4' is not > included in 'hamm