On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:10:04PM -0500, Randy Gobbel wrote: > I've finally gotten around to moving my day-to-day PowerPC Linux environment > over to Debian. Although it's sort of working, I'm running into lots of > problems. Any insight as to what's going on would be appreciated. I'm also > unsure how to deal with reporting these, since almost all of them are clearly > platform-specific. It seems like the standard bug report form needs a field > for the platform, now that there are so many different ones. > > I'm using Sven's X packages of January 20 (3.3.3.1-0.2), downloaded from > sunsite.auc.dk (thanks, Sven!). > > I'm not running on my Debian PowerPC setup at the moment, so some of these are > less detailed than I'd like, but (some of) the things I've run into are: > > --In X, the backspace key doesn't work in emacs--just produces a beep. > --ssh postinst dies with a missing symbol in libgmp2.
I swear, Dale is really stinking unresponsive. I'm on the verge of NMUing libgmp2. Maybe this week. > --netscape dependencies are seriously broken. All of the netscape packages > depend on nonexistent "netscape-base" packages. There's a package in contrib > whose name is close, but not right. netscape-base should exist. We'll get back to netscape. > --After running fix961212 on my existing netscape (4.08), it runs, but dies > with a Bus Error very quickly--all I have to do to kill it is try to open the > preferences dialog. I have managed to get the old unfixed netscape working by > using chroot, but that's an enormous pain. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't > seem to be sufficient. The fixed netscape still wants libstdc++.so.2.8.0. > Could that be part of the problem, and is there a way to fix that? We really don't know. Bad things are netscape. > --rlogind doesn't work, complains "out of ptys". Do you have a /dev/pts filesystem mounted and a /dev/ptmx? mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts (That needs kernel support) Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
