I have to temporarily remove dists/bo and dists/stable. The problem
is that dists/stable is a directory instead of a symlink, and
converting a directory to a symlink will break many ftp mirror
programs. The only semi-reliable way is to remove the directory, wait
a while for all ftp sites to get
The search engine works again. My apologies for the long downtime.
Guy
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Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My fix was:
ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/i486-linuxlibc1
Yipes! That's very wrong, and you don't want to link through the X11
dir, as at least one package was (incorrectly) using that.
Safest is:
cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11
for i in XErrorDB XKEYsymDB
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
add : app-defaults
Yes, and I held down the shift key too long when typing XKey. So do:
cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11
for i in XErrorDB XKeysymDB locale app-defaults ; do
ln -s ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/$i $i
done
The next version of xlib6g
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Guy Maor wrote:
All the libc5 packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this
directory.
Then someone (me ?) should log a bug against xlib6 cause it doesn't. It
loads everything into /usr/lib/libc5-compat. First I'd seen of
/usr/i486
Debian 1.2 (rex) will be removed from the ftp site on August 8. If
you want to get any files out of there or press a CD, you should do it
now.
Guy
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Mail is being archived again. I inadvertantly left the crontab entry
commented out while I was away.
Bugs in glimpse are still keeping me from getting the search engine
fully working. I want to use 4.0B1 as it has some useful features.
I'll keep debugging it.
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I have to fix the NIS stuff in passwd. Then I'll release a new one
with this fix also.
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Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
shadow-passwd package -- the new one is called just passwd, and has shadow
support, but seems to be missing /etc/shells. This may be bug in the new
package, but I'm not sure. I may have just done something stupid.
Yes it is. I'll fix it.
Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes:
I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool
on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb
file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right
direction, I would
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods
I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain
length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but
can't remember where and can't find the source again. Any
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This will strip the shortest suffix that matches .*
${var%.*}
This will strip the longest suffix that matches .*
${var%.*}
Oops. ${var%%.*} strips the longest. And using # instead of % will
strip from the beginning.
Guy
Debian - Leander Berwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I
type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I
correct this 'problem'?
The simplest way is with the reset command.
Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Lever) writes:
Is there a list of changes from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7?
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/ChangeLog
Guy
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have no entry for identd in /etc/services.
What is the well known port(tcp or udp)?
Is there a good reason why it's not in by default, ie. security?
It's in /etc/services
auth113/tcp authentication tap ident
and it's on by
Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are somefile that are like 7 meg, and take 1 1/2 hours to
download and the service I use kick me off after 1 hour. How could
I download it?
Either use reget command in ftp, or `get -r' in ncftp. Both do the
same.
reget remote-file
Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ Yes, we should add a symlink README.PGP - README.non-US. ]
Yes, I did it yesterday, so mirrors are seeing it now.
I estimate that will cut the volume of debian-user by 50%.
Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes:
Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and
dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken.
io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall
perl.
bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory.
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You probably have upgraded the timezone package.
This nice package has offset the PST timezone by one minute, and you probably
had (like me) your clock set to GMT.
The change wasn't arbitrary, btw. The timezone package used to come
with POSIX
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=libc.so.5.2.18
export MALLOC_CHECK_=0
MALLOC_CHECK_ is only meaningful on 5.4.20-1 and higher.
btw, for me, Netscape reliably crashes running Java apps under 16 bpp,
but it works ok under 8 bpp. Could that be the
Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently jumped from stable to unstable. Just a moment ago I thought about
installing TeX and it's friends in my system. However dselect lists many
packages that are not in the tex section of unstable tree. E.g. mflib, mfbin
are not in unstable
Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many people
take this things into account when deciding which distribution they
like best.
My mind is reeling.
Guy
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Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. Couldn't debian fit the last release in
total on the ftp site in a 'frozen' state for ftp users? I for one was
happy with the 1.2 release 'out of the box' and would probably not have
bothered upgrading until the next release if
Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is my understanding from what I've read on this list that it
is pretty much impossible to upgrade an old installation like mine
without re-installing.
That's an extremely harsh criticism. Upgrading to the
Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since it seems like all the bug fixes go in unstable, isn't the
unstable stuff more stable than stable?
All the new bugs go into stable too. Sometimes they are very bad.
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Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As soon as I visited the logo page, I found myself surrounded
with peguins and ducks: gkie, gkie, gkie!
Foul play!
No, Fowl play!!
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Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i am really puzzled by the behaviour of the latest dpkg. why did
dselect automatically upgrade mailx from 8.5.5-1 to 8.1.1-2 as per
example:
The new mailx is version `1:8.1.1-2', not `8.1.1-2'.
1:8.1.1-2 7.5.5-1.
If you type `dpkg --status mailx' you
Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What exactly does make install do?
See installkernel(8) and mkboot(8).
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Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at
1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time
I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing
in /var/log/messages' Is there a
Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jan 17 11:28:58 unix kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jan 17 11:28:59 unix kernel: Cannot find map file.
What does it mean when it says it cannot find map file?
klogd will look for a map file in /boot/System.map, /System.map,
Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have
dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available.
It's in unstable.
Is this a bug?
Yes, but has been fixed in Debian 1.2.3.
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directory (Bug#5564).
* Applied patch to main/archive.c to correct problems setting set[gu]id
binaries, courtesy of Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bug#5479).
* Applied patch to dpkg-source to correct debian-only package names,
courtesy of Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#5355
Dirk Luetjens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
during an update form Debian 1.1 to Debian 1.2.2 I purged the base
package base from Debian 1.1 (dselect show this package as obsolete)
Afterwards all files in /dev where missing.
Are there any substitutions for this package? Which package must I
Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2. From the docs, I thought diald would establish the default route to the
gateway automatically. Am I wrong in my assumption? If so, is what I did
to fix the problem the right way to go about it?
The right way is to add `defaultroute' to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathieu GUILLAUME) writes:
Hi. It seems the latest login package now puts every login process in
/var/log/auth.log, instead of the former root logins, su and login
failures. Is there any way to revert to the former behavior without
having to revert to the former package ?
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Having two versions of a package in an archive will give dselect fits, and
it will usually not do the right thing.
It won't give it fits, but it won't automatically use the later
version. It'll use the one that happens to come first in the
directory.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes:
No, he meant (or at least I do now): why does X (when it starts,
and it does on my mashine, with that path in /etc/ld.so.conf)
say that it didn't load the PEX and XIE extentions? And, how
can I load them?
The answer is in XF86Config(5x). There's
Nathan L. Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On my system at least, there is no 'xterm-color' binary, so, if I
understand things correctly, when I run 'xterm', only the XTerm
app-defaults file is checked, not XTerm-color.
If you want color on by default, just add this line to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Eck) writes:
What I'd like to know is how is the file Packages constructed.
dpkg-scanpackages(8)
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Received: from mongo.pixar.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes:
|You might want something like the following:
|
| 50MB /
Is 50 Mb enough ?
My / is 16 megs and currently half empty even with four different
kernels in /boot. If /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home are elsewhere, / is
kept small and low-access. Makes
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror?
Without Incoming and WebPages, 1018149 Kbytes for the whole thing.
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Kendrick Myatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C)
Connecting to ftp.debian.org...
Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm
line 405
FTP ERROR
Is DNS working? Can you do `ping ftp.debian.org'?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes:
While we are on the subject of mime-support, I'd like to know
if there is some command that I can run at the command line to
decode a mime'd file?
munpack (1) - unpack messages in MIME or split-uuencode format
in the mpack package.
Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hiya, i thought I saw someone mention that upgrades to existing
packages were available via diffs to the source.
debian/doc/source-unpack.txt on any mirror.
Guy
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My understanding: You must install the xterm-color package which
replaces the default monochrome xterm with the color knowledgable
binary. That should do it.
No, xterm-color is obsolete. Color abilites have been folded in to
the X11R6.1 xterm.
Ryan Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i then went back to caldera to grab the 1.2.1 release thinking that it
would be mostly links back to the 1.2 release (other than the updated
packages).
however, all i got was a bunch of links.
All the updates are in Debian-1.2-updates. Debian-1.2.1 is
Kendrick Myatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dselect will not work because there is no ftp.
No, dselect's ftp method, dpkg-ftp, uses perl's Net::FTP to do ftp
(the protocol). It does not require ftp (the client). Use dselect to
get netstd and you'll have ftp (the client).
Guy
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Kendrick Myatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
system installed here. Is there
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That hardwires your machine to run at a different time than the CMOS
clock... which means you have two different clock versions on your
system.
The appropriate option, is to control the representation...
I'm not sure what you're saying here, but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes:
ld: cannot open -lncurses: no such file or directory
Have you installed ncurses3.0-dev? You need the libncurses.so link
provided by this package to compile (among other things).
both libs are in /lib:
libncurses.so.3.0
libtermcap.so.2 -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman Widders) writes:
i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and
debian distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian
being too large. downloading six megabytes doesnt take that long B)
I was also incredulous the first time I heard
Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
than a *quality*
Chuma Agbodike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I get around this [forgot his root password]?
Boot off a floppy, mount your root partition, edit /etc/passwd to
remove root's password.
Use debian/stable/disks-i386/current/resq1440.bin if you don't have a
boot floppy.
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Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why don't you just check the X-Mailing-List: header instead of To:? It's
better than trying to dictate how everyone replies to the list.
Probably because, like me, he doesn't want to see the personal copy if
someone also sent it to the list. And he'd like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Roesch) writes:
Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should
I set CMOS time to GMT and use some sort of timezone info (which I don't
know how to setup)? Or??
# as root
unset TZ # just in case you've accidentally set it
Kendrick Myatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just curious... I also just noticed there is 1.2 fixed at the Debian site,
so I am about to re-install with those images...
The boot disks are the same though (for now). You can upgrade to
1.2.1 by just installing everything in 1.2-updates or by
Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The last mesg I received from Debian Installer indicated that updates for
rex were being uploaded to rex-updates/binary
It will show up on mirrors in the next day or two. I made the
directory unreadable by mirrors until I was finished preparing it.
Don Prezioso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
find . -name TRANS.TBL -print0 | xargs -0 rm
is better as it starts many fewer processes.
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Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hiya, I'm using g++ under Debian 1.2 and have the following compile error:
The problem is almost assuredly with an.cc, or some header of your
own. This compiles fine, for example:
--
#include stdio.h
--
Try to cut lines out of an.cc until the problem
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What package(s) do I upgrade to fix it? We are running the 2.0.27 kernel.
Upgrade libc5. Version 5.4 of libc5 uses dl-malloc, while 5.2 used
gnu-malloc. You'll also need to upgrade ldso. Long-running,
memory-intensive apps, like X servers, will
Gerry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name
of your machine must match the IP address of your machine.
That's exactly right.
And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every
other OS's talk that I've
Shane Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What does the Debian CD looklike?
/debian/binary-i386/
Stick to the organization on the ftp site. I don't think it matters
where you put the top level directory as dselect asks you where it is.
Bruce - will be bootdisks ask you where the base disk images
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does a root-installed crontab (i.e. crontab somefile) interfere with
/etc/crontab (the system crontab)?
No. Note that they're not in exactly the same format though.
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Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh dear. I have just installed a complete Debian system for a new recruit
who is now 4 hours away by jet. Is there any automated way of finding
missing bits?
Yes - track updates to 1.2 as they are released, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, etc.
Or what is my best
Lord Of The CLUTZ's [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was wondering, when I installed debian it installed getty (or so I thought)
however when I do man getty it gives me the man page for agetty, I would
prefer to have getty, because it does a clear screen after logout, I prefer
that better... any
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a
nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a
specific cursor color, either for each window or globally?
Set the `XTerm*pointerColor' resource.
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Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could you please tell us the md5 sum of the md5sum.txt file?
344cbc40324ebd10a526a1e83263c7b7 md5sum.txt
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System Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi there. i have upgraded to debian 1.2. i also upgraded my smail to
smail_3.2-3.deb. since then i have not been able to exec /usr/sbin/mkaliases.
it tells me:
/usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases
the mode for
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
binaries losing their suid bits.
This is bug 5479 in dpkg. It contains a patch which you can use until
a new version of dpkg fixes it.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler) writes:
- The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
- unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
- (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in
- letters as H, f and so on.
Try looking at it with antialiasing turned on,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes:
I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the
manual pages for X.
You probably have the MANPATH environment variable set. Unset it.
Guy
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Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
Is this right?
Yes.
Which one should I be using?
Which country are you in? I know of several
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about
from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't
it still need to be a ro file system?
You use losetup to make the loop, then make the fs, and then mount
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see no man page for checksecurity...
There is a man page in version in frozen, 3.0pl1-34, and it has an
answer for you:
The checksecurity command scans the mounted files systems
(subject to the filter defined in
Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The development
releases (which are in general relatively stable, although things
break from tinme to time) are only given code names.
That's not completely accurate. Every release is given a code name,
but only stable releases are given
Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
procedure will be welcome :), but I believe you will need the
following:
1) The boot, root and base disk set
2) Any of the following which are not on the base disks:
[...]
Everything you need is already on the base disks. That's the whole
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks!
I went to try to upgrade it to the frozen version (and also to get the man
page), but couldn't find any packages named check* when I did a find...
What's the package that I should install?
$ dpkg --search checksecurity
cron:
Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So my question is this: how do i fsck the filesystem in a file?
Use losetup(8) to associate the loop device with a file first, then
fsck, and then mount.
losetup /dev/loop0 /the/loopback/file
fsck -t ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0
David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I use same XFConfig script in x-3.2 that I used in x-3.1??
Yes.
BTW. What happen to ../unstable and ../bo where x-3.2 used to be???
They're still there. unstable is a symlink to bo, btw.
Guy
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Antony F Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and
find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed
*before* having to download it.
Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed
size is the 'Size' field. The
Actually I was totally wrong before. The Size field gives the size of
the actual .deb file (in bytes). The Installed-Size field gives the
amount of disk space required to install the package (in kbytes). See
the dpkg Programmer's Manual 4.2.11 and 4.2.20 for more details.
Because the
Martin Budsj| [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How complete is the Dec Alpha dist? Last i took a peek it looked quite
uncomplete but i may have been looking in the wrong place...
It's totally incomplete. A few developers just bought Alphas, so
it'll get rolling pretty soon. The Sparc distribution
Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Everything (at this point) under X is working. But...
I'm getting a message saying:
PEX extension module not loaded
XIE extension module not loaded
It starting saying that since I upgraded to 3.2 of X.
Add this to your XF86Config file:
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Add this to your XF86Config file:
Section Modules
Load pex5.so
Load xie.so
EndSection
Sorry, that first line should
Section Module
Guy
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Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I have a printer with 2 paper trays [...]
You've already figured out how to do it - multiple queues. Each uses
some small program to send the proper escape codes. It's straight-
forward to set up.
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What file do I put my PGP public key in to have it displayed in my
finger info in Debian Linux?
.pgpkey
This is in cfingerd(8), which you've obviously installed.
Guy
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes:
One solution would be to automate the package updates
This is pretty easy to do with dpkg. The two important commands are
dpkg --get-selections [pattern ...] get list of selections to stdout
dpkg --set-selections set package
Mike O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WHAT I THINK I NEED: I think that I need to boot the system in single-user
mode
To reboot in single user mode, pass the `single' flag to LILO. (For
example, if your image is called linux, type linux single).
To reboot in emergency mode, pass the
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Prior to the freezing of rex, unstable (rex) contained all of the
physical files of the distribution.
Now, unstable is bo, and it has many links back to rex.
At what point will bo loose the links to rex and be self-contained
again?
Not until bo
Arthur D. Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How does a guy find a driver for A Trantor SCSI T130 controller card for
Win95.
By posting to unrelated mailing lists of course!!
Just in case the mailing list idea doesn't pan out, try standing
outside your front door and shouting your request at
Vatiainen Heikki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are still known problems (see the bug list on our FTP site), so
Where exactly is this bug list? I checked ftp.debian.org but did not find it.
Oops. Bruce meant the web site. http://www.debian.org/
Guy
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Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
If you look at the symlinks, you'll see that unstable points to bo and
frozen points to rex. rex is the frozen 1.2 tree. Lots of packages
are still going into it as bugs get fixed, but no new
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libhistory.so.2.0.1 has inconsistent soname
(libreadline.so.2.0), skipping
That's a bug in libreadline2. I'll upload a fixed one tomorrow.
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1b1 has inconsistent soname
Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm curious how much problems you had using just libc 5.4.7. I started
netscape without the PRELOAD line and it worked fine.
Practically any java code will crash it. Try http://www.gamelan.com/
I have since restarted it as you list above (well,
Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I downloaded kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb today and found that dselect/dpkg was
unable to install it.
I tried to extract the copy on the master site, and it's fine. Maybe
your download got corrupted? md5sum is:
fee75e4ed7841c6b4b18d1e13d97859b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Rathert) writes:
since updating to rex I've got some problems with C++.
libg++27: 2.7.1-3
You need to update to libg++27 2.7.2.1, which right now is only in
unstable, or bo. But I will move it to frozen, or rex right now, so
it'll be in mirrors in
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note that the latest libc deb package (5.4.7-7, I think) has a special
malloc lib file to be used in much the same way. I haven't installed it
yet, but it's the better way to handle this.
Yes, it works fine. I use this as /usr/local/lib/netscape:
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I do recall reading somewhere that a benefit of the newest libc is that
it can now give freed memory back to the system. I'm guessing that I'm
seeing this feature.
Yes, that is true. Big long-runnning apps (like X) will use less
memory with libc5.4.
Warwick HARVEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when I install e2fsprogs_1.06-2, it displays the following error mesg.
dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency:
e2fsprogs pre-depends on e2fsprogs (= 1.06-1)
dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know this was discussed just recently. It seems the options
are to disable Java in Netscape or downgrade to an older libc.
Are there other options?
libc5_5.4.7-7 will be in the archive soon, and it includes the older
malloc as a seperate library for
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