Lockups

We recently upgraded to a mroe recent version of unstable, and we're getting errors on the console lost mailbox lock, going up the screen. After a day or two, we get those messages coming really quickly, and the system is locked. These messages only show up on console, and not in any of the

Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and the following message in my system logs. Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]:

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

Alec Smith wrote: I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would be my uneducated guess as to your problem. No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to telnet in, it

Apache will not authenticate anyone!

I've been trying to set up mod_roaming, and I have had no luck. Apache will not authenticate anyone, but Netscape seems to find the server and it will try to log in. I've also tried to make a .htaccess and a .htpasswd file in my public_html directory, and it will not even authenticate a user

update-menus broken

My update-menus binary seems to have broken. Whenever I try running it (or removing packages, or adding packages that add menu items), it immediately gives me the following error: edgy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# update-menus Aborted An strace shows something like this:

Re [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

Ed C. Wrote: Just in case you don't know: You can disable that Windows boot logo with an entry in msdos.sys (a text file now) of Logo=0 in the Options section. Works for W95. Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, though. :-) Well, this is probably

Problems installing yagirc

Well, I had some problems with running yagirc because of missing shared libraries, so I decided to remove libgnome, libgtk, etc. and all programs related to that, and re-install it from scratch. I'm using the unstable tree. I have the following problems when trying to use apt-get or dselect to

RESOLUTION on segfault on Wordperfect 8

Hmm, I'm getting a segfault when I try executing xwp from Wordperfect 8.0 using Debian slink... Here's what happens: $ ./xwp Segmentation fault $ ldd ./xwp /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so = /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so (0x4000e000) libXt.so.6 = /lib/libXt.so.6

segfault on Wordperfect 8

Hmm, I'm getting a segfault when I try executing xwp from Wordperfect 8.0 using Debian slink... Here's what happens: $ ./xwp Segmentation fault $ ldd ./xwp /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so = /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so (0x4000e000) libXt.so.6 = /lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4001)