On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 08:02:39PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I've just noticed a few things while installing Debian on my IPX. >[snip] (upgrade stuff to potato's version) apt-move wanted too much stuff upgraded (actually broke some things), so I grabbed source and tweaked dependencies. Then I copied stuff from my Lintel slink box to make debhelper work. :> > > setserial crashes the console (bad if you're running a serial console) > > setserial tries to initialise to Lintel IRQ settings on sparc > dpkg --purge setserial > Setserial makes little sense on stock sparc systems. Yeah. :> > > > (on kernel 2.2.13) something causes a kernel panic/OOPS having to do with > > the serial ports > > Haven't noticed this. Perhaps emailing [email protected] would > be of more help. Mmmm. I have a full console log of one of the 'nice sessions'. Basically go ahead and explain that I'm running a serial console, then send the .config (if I can recreate it) and the console log as attachments? > > (in potato) 'login' can't change tty permissions, and man can't change its > > cat page permissions. > > Login does not change tty permissions for a very good reason, mainly > security related. I'm not sure what you mean about man and it's cat pages, > I haven't noticed any problems with man at all. I'll check this if I ever to a full upgrade to potato again. Oh, now that I'm actually AWAKE (g), it was saying 'function not implimented'.
