Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Chris == Chris Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Chris wrote: There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Chris" == Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Chris> wrote: >> There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you >> configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step >> (e.g. xforms not

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-15 Thread Chris Menzel
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-15 Thread Chris Menzel
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you > configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step > (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null > device. This undoubtly

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-12 Thread Darren Freeman
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 22:02, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-12 Thread Darren Freeman
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 22:02, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you > configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step > (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null > device. This undoubtly leads to very

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Stephan Witt
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Michael == Michael Abshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael This bug bit me couple of times when I set up my new Laptop. Michael I never suspected the configure-script and chased the bug for Michael a week. Yes, it is ugly. Note that kudos for spotting this

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Michael == Michael Abshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael This bug bit me couple of times when I set up my new Laptop. Michael I never suspected the configure-script and chased the bug for Michael a week. Yes, it is ugly. Note that kudos for spotting this should go to Dominik Vogt. JMarc

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Abshoff
Stephan Witt wrote: Ofcourse this isn't an excuse for this bug, but... Once upon a time there was a rule: Never configure and compile software as root! After a succesful build you should become root with su (without hyphen!) and do a make install, if you tested this piece of software and trust

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:51:09PM +0100, Michael Abshoff wrote: Are you guys still interested in bugreports fpr lyx 1.2.2? I am compiling a list of oddities and unexpected behaviours, but I won't be done till late friday. Especially if they are present in 1.3.0cvs, too: Yes. Andre' --

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Stephan Witt
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Michael" == Michael Abshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> This bug bit me couple of times when I set up my new Laptop. Michael> I never suspected the configure-script and chased the bug for Michael> a week. Yes, it is ugly. Note that kudos for spotting

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Abshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> This bug bit me couple of times when I set up my new Laptop. Michael> I never suspected the configure-script and chased the bug for Michael> a week. Yes, it is ugly. Note that kudos for spotting this should go to Dominik

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Abshoff
Stephan Witt wrote: Ofcourse this isn't an excuse for this bug, but... Once upon a time there was a rule: Never configure and compile software as root! After a succesful build you should become root with su (without hyphen!) and do a make install, if you tested this piece of software and trust

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:51:09PM +0100, Michael Abshoff wrote: > Are you guys still interested in bugreports fpr lyx 1.2.2? I am compiling > a list of oddities and unexpected behaviours, but I won't be done > till late friday. Especially if they are present in 1.3.0cvs, too: Yes. Andre' --

[WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, since /dev/null is a very basic device in any unix

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | If you have been victim of this problem, please complain here and I'll | try to find out how to reconstruct it (some magic command that I do | not know yet). On linux: mknod /dev/null c 1 3 (also use the -m switch to set permissons correctly

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Ronny Buchmann
Am Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003 12:32 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread billw
For anyone who needs to recover, On my RedHat 8.0 machine /dev/null is a character device with major mode 1, minor mode 3 and mode a+rw - use mknod to make a new one. On Solaris, it's a soft link to /devices/pseudo/mm@0:null - use ln to recreate. Bill. On 8 Jan 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Abshoff
On most Linux-distros you won't be able to properly boot since the root filesystem ist usually mounted read-only. Remounting it as read-write will fail when /dev/null is not present (at least in SuSE). So start you system in single user mode, log in as root on the console, do a 'mount -o remount

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads

[WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, since /dev/null is a very basic device in any unix

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | If you have been victim of this problem, please complain here and I'll | try to find out how to reconstruct it (some magic command that I do | not know yet). On linux: mknod /dev/null c 1 3 (also use the -m switch to set permissons correctly

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Ronny Buchmann
Am Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003 12:32 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you > configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step > (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null > device. This undoubtly leads to

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread billw
For anyone who needs to recover, On my RedHat 8.0 machine /dev/null is a character device with major mode 1, minor mode 3 and mode a+rw - use mknod to make a new one. On Solaris, it's a soft link to /devices/pseudo/mm@0:null - use ln to recreate. Bill. On 8 Jan 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Abshoff
On most Linux-distros you won't be able to properly boot since the root filesystem ist usually mounted read-only. Remounting it as read-write will fail when /dev/null is not present (at least in SuSE). So start you system in single user mode, log in as root on the console, do a 'mount -o remount

Re: [WARNING] Bad bug in lyx 1.2.2 configure script

2003-01-08 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > There is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you > configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step > (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null > device. This undoubtly