--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 1:16 pm +0200 "Christian Meder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 06:46:17PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: >> [^Z doesn't work in bash, and recently ksh] > > Could you elaborate ? > Well.. in 2.0.35, on my SS2 (and I know others have experienced this) you cannot suspend processes with ^Z in bash. More accurately, you can suspend the process, but bash never comes to the foreground - so you are left with a dead terminal sitting on a suspended process. >> [modprobe problems] > > I don't have modprobe problems. SS2 specific ? I don't personally use modprobe - those problems were Michael's, perhaps he'll elaborate. > >> >> I can add to that: >> >> I'm seeing segfaults with any program which is linked to our current >> libstdc++ 2.8. 2.9 is fine. This is a problem, since apt has broken... > > 2.0.95 broke libstdc++2.8 and there's no source to recompile (see > debian-devel thread). I more or less deduced this myself. (I am not currently on -devel, I had to unsubscribe because I was on holiday, and the volume is vast. I'm in the process of catching up with the archives, at which point I will re-subscribe). > >> And then we have the big kernel version problem. Any recent 2.1 kernel >> (later than eightysomething ????) will not run our bash. Or not last I >> tried, anyhow. >> >> 2.0.33 doesn't have the ^Z problem, BTW. 2.0.35 does. > > Hmm, 2.0.35 is rock stable on my Sparc10 ... > Other serious problems I see on a regular basis are: ldd doesn't work on shared libs, which breaks dpkg-shlibdeps. This is apparently SS2 specific, and fixed in kernel 2.1.x (x>80 or so). kernel 2.1 doesn't work :-( Problem seems to be our bash. Recently, update-menus has started segfaulting on me. I have recompiled the menu package against stdc++ 2.9, but the problem remains. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
