On 8/6/05, Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0700, Jon Dodson wrote: > > so i downloaded the latest sane to support my astra scanner. > > > > i ran configure, no worries, ran make, no worries. > > > > ran "sudo checkinstall -D" > > "checkinstall" is not part of sane-backends. > If it's this checkinstall you are talking about: > http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ > They are talking about a compromised server in February (without any > consequences).
Right, checkinstall is just a simple way to create .deb and .rpm packages, i have used it hundreds of times with no problems. i did not know they had a compromised server. i was using the hoary package from the respositories. > > > and my whole box went crazy. windows > > started popping up, then all my gnome icons were X'ed out. finally i > > can not login in it says Cannot cd to "/home/jdodson" I cant login > > with any other user. I downloaded sane via your website, WTF kind of > > software is this? Some sort of trojan? > > Be careful with such accusations.' I just know what happened, after I ran checkinstall I ran normal make install and it blew up again, same thing happened. > > > it was the sanebackend 1.0.15 from here: > > ftp://ftp.sane-project.org/pub/sane/sane-backends-1.0.15/ > > Just to be sure I checked the md5sum of sane-backends-1.0.15.tar.gz > from above mentioned server and it's correct. Also the file is > identical to the local copy I have on my computer. And I don't have > any problems installing (and using) it. > > > I am using an old laptop because all I can do it go into single user > > mode on my ubuntu machine, a little help here as you caused the issue > > in the first place? > > Have you used any options to configure? Maybe your hard disc died just > when you installed sane? I am installing hoary now, the harddrive is fine, i ran memory tools, fine. I ran the harddrive check fine. My system was fine before I installed checkinstall from source in a way I have for ages. I will figure this out on my own I guess. > > Bye, > Henning > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] > -- -jon http://www.jdodson.org
