Re: Stuck loading Potato on a SPARCstation 1

2000-08-31 Thread Christian Meder
was unbootable. You have to get the 2.2_rev0_CDa set or boot via tftp as explained in the installation instructions. Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks

Re: X on a u10

2000-08-19 Thread Christian Meder
protocol ? which kernel version ? what's the version of the xserver-xsun24 package ? where is /dev/mouse pointing to ? Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows

Re: update on 2.1r5 status...

2000-02-08 Thread Christian Meder
architectures: i386 sparc (ALPHA, M68K MISSING) issue: package used /usr/share/doc Alpha version is in Incoming. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills

Re: Vertical Lines w/ ZX FrameBuffer

2000-02-04 Thread Christian Meder
at the white SILO boot screen, the tux boot logo, and in X. The consoles are flawless. Any Ideas? Wes Bowen Could you file a bug report with all the details against kernel-image-2.2.14 ? Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)

1999-12-15 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: missing keys in X11

1999-12-15 Thread Christian Meder
/sun/de you'll see the different possible maps for de mapping. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets

Re: PHP3 Module for Apache-SSL

1999-12-07 Thread Christian Meder
-- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: X probs.

1999-09-22 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David

Re: compile kernel 2.0.35 on Sparc?

1999-06-30 Thread Christian Meder
to compile a 2.0.35 kernel for Sparc. -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David

Re: Still errors in Ultra 5 installation

1999-06-28 Thread Christian Meder
with Creator boards (compared to the previous ones which were only fast and the slink version which is only stable). Thanks Steve. I intend to upload fixed egcs* packages and more recent X packages to stable. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL

Re: kernel 2.2.9, slink and Sparc

1999-05-18 Thread Christian Meder
for further references regarding this topic. :-) Thanks in advance! :-) It should work on Sparc. Don't worry about the statement ;-) Most of us here are running 2.2.x kernels nowadays with a slink system. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL

glibc, X11 and the rest

1999-04-29 Thread Christian Meder
pretty well. Thanks Eric, Steve and Anders. -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry

Re: kbdrate/pdksh/kernel?

1999-03-15 Thread Christian Meder
-image-2.0.35deb Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries

Re: Several problems with fresh installation

1999-03-15 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

Sparc status and Re: Sparc progress

1999-03-08 Thread Christian Meder
. Package: python-history python-numeric python-pdb python-numeric isn't available on Debian slink sparc. Package: wml eperl(= 2.2.14-0.1) eperl isn't available on Debian slink sparc. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL

Re: new bootdisks uploaded

1999-03-02 Thread Christian Meder
unknown $ uptime 11:06am up 3 days, 16:46, 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.02 Not too spectacular but I had to move the machine 3 days ago ;-) Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see

Decision on slink sparc sources

1999-02-25 Thread Christian Meder
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 02:39:07PM +0100, Christian Meder wrote: Ok as far as Debian/Sparc is concerned I propose the following scenarios: Scenario 1 (my preferred scenario) The sparc and glibc2.1 specific fixes which aren't yet incorporated in the slink source packages won't be flagged

Re: slink release (and status discussion)

1999-02-16 Thread Christian Meder
. The slink release of Debian/Sparc is drawing near ... Starring: Eric Delaunay, the fearless master of the boot floppies Steve Dunham, general hacker (I really mean hacker) on the bleeding edge Anders Hammarquist, master of X on sparc _and_ alpha Christian Meder, can't remember what he actually

Re: Missing Sparc packages in the last packages

1999-02-16 Thread Christian Meder
the list of pre-defined packages sets? I haven't tried to compile it yet because it's such a disk space hog and I'm short on disk space on my buildd box. Probably it's safer to remove it from the packages set. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL

The road ahead ...

1999-01-27 Thread Christian Meder
;-) Comments or anything else I forgot ? Greetings from rainy Germany, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets

Re: kernel 2.0.35 iso9660

1998-12-29 Thread Christian Meder
to compare it to mine ? Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries

Re: Can I update the sparc glibc?

1998-12-21 Thread Christian Meder
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 09:45:57PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote: Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sigaction is broken in the new glibc2.1. I know this kind of error because I had to track it down. I don't know how it happened but it seems that the sparc-sigaction patch didn't apply

Re: mars problem

1998-12-20 Thread Christian Meder
probably includes linux/... headers and the usual glibc2.1 headers and gets lot of conflicts. I would guess you have to fix the sources. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends

Re: Debian violates GPL?

1998-12-20 Thread Christian Meder
egcs is also out of date with respect to i386 slink anyways. Right. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets

Re: Should any of the glibc-pre2.1 sparc patches be sent upstream?

1998-12-20 Thread Christian Meder
and should go upstream. Without this patch you get weird sigaction behaviour. Otherwise if you reinstall a signal handler you get Error: Success messages. The routine returns -1 although there was no error. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email

Re: X and miscellania..

1998-12-11 Thread Christian Meder
don't need a XF86Config. The Xserver is Xsun from the TOG release not from XFree86 so you have to do the configuration via the commandline options. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where

Re: Compiling SAMBA 2.0

1998-12-08 Thread Christian Meder
. Greetings, Christian PS.: Alternatively compilation with -D__NO_STRING_INLINES should work too. -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows

Re: The time has come (part II) ...

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
. A recent 2.1 kernel would be nice since it supports SMP. Any chance of going to something newer than 2.1.125? I'll package a newer one if you tell me which one is best. We should wait for a fix which cures Jules X problems. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email

Re: boot disks progress... and problem :-(

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
in memory). Christian, can you upload a new package with these options enabled? I'll upload a fixed 2.1.125 or a more recent kernel. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where

Re: Problem with sendmail 8.9.1-4 or libc6 2.0.100-2.1?

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
with frozen. I'll check it after recompilation. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing

Re: libc6

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing

Re: unbuilt packages

1998-11-30 Thread Christian Meder
earned some sleep ;-) Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries

Re: ash need to be recompiled

1998-11-28 Thread Christian Meder
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 11:47:38PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: Christian Meder wrote: Very cool. Would it be possible to create a 2.0.35 installation set and a 2.1.130 set (next week) ? best of both worlds approach I guess ;-) I will try to upload new boot disks next monday, based

Re: ash need to be recompiled

1998-11-27 Thread Christian Meder
(next week) ? best of both worlds approach I guess ;-) Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand

Re: Status of Sid/Slink/Potato/whatever it is for me

1998-11-27 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: The time has come ...

1998-11-20 Thread Christian Meder
was announced subsequently, so maybe I'm confused about something. http://www.debian.org/devel/incoming_mirrors Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows

Re: Gathering opinions: Freeze ?

1998-11-20 Thread Christian Meder
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 06:00:37PM +, Jules Bean wrote: --On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 6:45 pm +0100 Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was discussing with Brian if we could get frozen for release on Sparc for 2.1. His answer was that if we are almost ready now for release we

Re: The time has come ...

1998-11-20 Thread Christian Meder
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 04:51:32PM +, Jules Bean wrote: --On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 4:25 pm +0100 Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:13:40AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Also, I compiled the xfree86 packages under the new libc6 2.0.100. I had to hack around

Re: The time has come ...

1998-11-20 Thread Christian Meder
and it doesn't involve extra work for porting so I gathered we should support it. I made a proper altgcc package so we even have got the sources now ;-) Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see

Re: The time has come ...

1998-11-20 Thread Christian Meder
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 05:23:58PM +, Jules Bean wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Christian Meder wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 04:51:32PM +, Jules Bean wrote: --On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 4:25 pm +0100 Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:13:40AM

Gathering opinions: Freeze ?

1998-11-20 Thread Christian Meder
as major showstoppers. The kernel is a minor problem but one we won't be able to solve before release. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows

Re: The time has come ...

1998-11-19 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: The time has come ...

1998-11-17 Thread Christian Meder
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 10:43:41AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: Christian == Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian If you've got any problems with any of the packages Christian please report it to the list. Only one, thus far. I'm getting the dreaded

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread Christian Meder
hits to the FTP mirrors. Do or do not. There is no 'try'. grin Ok. I vote for 'do'. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks

[meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de: Re: re freezing powerpc]

1998-11-07 Thread Christian Meder
Oops, forgot to send it to the list too ! - Forwarded message from Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:10:23 +0100 From: Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: re freezing powerpc

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-07 Thread Christian Meder
in frozen which will be uploaded soonish. It's not a bugfix release but it's a _big_ improvement on Sparc (you can't work on a machine with slightly broken signal handling and consequently a slightly broken bash ;-) Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email

Re: System Call 119, etc; and apt broke

1998-11-07 Thread Christian Meder
); } Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing

Re: re freezing powerpc

1998-11-06 Thread Christian Meder
of packages it could given a little more time ditto for sparc. But I guess you could call it a reasonable subset by release time. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends

Re: glibc 2.0.99

1998-11-06 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing

Re: glibc 2.0.99

1998-11-06 Thread Christian Meder
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:45:00AM +, Jules Bean wrote: --On Fri, Nov 6, 1998 10:17 am +0100 Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm downloading your version just now. I've got some sparc specific changes to do (from a 1026 snapshot I use). Could you please wait for my

Re: Debian/sparc problems (and solutions?)

1998-10-15 Thread Christian Meder
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 ... Greetings, Christian -- Christian

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Christian Meder
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:49:59PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: --On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 12:14 am +0200 Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:25AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: Brian == Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Could I get some

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: IPC Problems

1998-10-08 Thread Christian Meder
originally had RedHat 4.2 installed and did not have this problem. Thanks in advance for any help. Try upgrading to base/kernel-image-2.0.35_2.0.35-1.deb. It has the appropriate fix incorporated. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Vacation

1998-09-12 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian PS. The glibc-pre2.1 package I uploaded for Sparc has a small flaw: it conflicts with libc5 (5.4.33-7) and we've got only libc5 5.3.12. You have to use --force-conflicts to install it together with libc5 right now. I'll correct it when I'm back. -- Christian Meder, email

Re: unimplemented system calls

1998-09-12 Thread Christian Meder
which I'll attach. 2.1.x should be ok. DON'T PANIC. The syscalls are ok, the warnings are just annoying. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes

glibc, egcs, gcc, ...

1998-09-08 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)

New glibc-2.0.95 snapshot

1998-08-28 Thread Christian Meder
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 12:00:11AM -0400, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:32:02AM +0200, Christian Meder wrote: I will try to build on my sun4m here. Will you build the 2.0.95 version, Johnie or should I try to do it ? I will go from the 2.0.95 packaging from http

Re: Locating source

1998-07-18 Thread Christian Meder
-- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: libc6 (980414) problems

1998-07-08 Thread Christian Meder
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:27:07PM -0700, Paul Vojta wrote: o All instances of automount quietly die after a few minutes. Has anybody else had these problems? I have this problem, too. I didn't try the other stuff. Greetings, Christian -- Christian

exp broken in libc6 ?

1998-07-02 Thread Christian Meder
Hi, I'm using glibc 2.0.93-980414-1 and kernel 2.0.34 (sparclinux-2.0-980625). $ less chris.c #include math.h main() { exp(1); } $ gcc -lm chris.c $ ./a.out Floating point exception (core dumped) A library bug ? Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email

install disks segfault

1998-06-23 Thread Christian Meder
, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau