On 8/1/05, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Jitse Venselaar posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > excerpted below, on Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:04:38 +0200: > > > As the reporter of the problem with nano, I'd like to make 1 correction to > > this report: Recompiling nano and its depencies did not fix the crashes. It > > just fixed the eating of the file. > > Thanks for the correction. > I am just compiling my amd64 laptop from stage1 again, but this time I applied the patches right in the beginning. Nano seems to run fine so far (in chroot), so how do you get the crashes? I tried searching as mentioned in the abose post.
> > I did not recompile my entire system, but a crash of such a small and basic > > app as nano made me not want to do this outside of a chroot, which I > > currently do not have the means for. > > A rather good point. Of course, some of us like living on the edge <g>, > but it's still something I'd not add as a dev, certainly not unless it was > linked to some sort of local > USE=this-might-kill-your-children-and-eat-their-flesh type of USE flag! <g> > > (OK, s/children/files/, s/their-flesh/your-disk/, but you get the point...) > > Never-the-less, I added the strings patch here, and have the new KDE 3.4.2 > stuff at least, compiled against it... Computing is my hobby; if I > wanted something that would predictably "just work", I'd be doing TiVos or > the like! Much of the fun is the occasional breakage in mysterious ways, > never knowing quite when it'll happen, and the challenge of figuring out > how to get back to a working system, again! > So if you wanted something to just work you would be running Linux on TiVo? I think a intel computer would be better for that... > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Cheers, Karol Krizka -- [email protected] mailing list
