Re: Weird ICQ problems
I was having some wierd crashing problems too, mostly on kernel compiles (got to the point where I had to compile kernels for my firewall on another machine). I was averaging 2 day uptimes (still better than most W95 machines) Suspecting a hardware problem, I swapped my sound card, video card, IDE driver, serial port driver (It was also crashing whenever I tried to access the serial ports), until I finally swapped a 486 motherboard for my pentium motherboard and my memory failed the boot check. I now have two 16 meg simms sitting on my desk and check out my uptimes $ ud -d - Uptime for myrouter.home.ericzeller.com - Now : 26 day(s), 01:07:08 running Linux 2.0.36 One : 26 day(s), 01:05:14 running Linux 2.0.36, ended Tue Sep 14 22:48:35 1999 Two : 16 day(s), 11:05:48 running Linux 2.0.36, ended Wed Jul 28 23:52:06 1999 Three: 16 day(s), 02:13:28 running Linux 2.0.36, ended Sat Aug 14 09:34:03 1999 the last time I rebooted was because my sound module had got stuck wouldn't unload, and the time before that was when I realized I had installed the parallel cable backwards on the motherboard (note: the red stripe does not always point to pin 1) Eric Zeller A Happy Oacis Employee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericzeller.com The Ships hung in the air in exactly the same way bricks don't - HHGTTG On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than ^ ^^ once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? What specifically does the kernel (or qt, etc) compile 'crash' with? -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstien -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Weird ICQ problems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable version) to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping that a new version will fix the problem, but currently, and version I try (including .61 which is what started the problem) will act the same. I am hoping .70 will fix it, but don't have too much hope. I've re-complied and re-installed .61 about 3 or 4 times and the problem hasn't gone away. I see now that I misunderstood one thing. My machine was not crashing, just Licq was crashing. I am a KDE user, so I had to leave QT 1.44 in place in /usr/local/qt. I have installed Qt 2.01 in /usr/local/qt-2.01 First, I do: export QTDIR=/usr/local/qt-2.01 I untar the Licq tarball and cd into Licq-0.70 and then ./configure --with-qt-includes=/usr/local/qt-2.01 \ --with-qt-libraries=/usr/local/qt-2.01 [enter] when that is done: make make install When that is all done, I cd to the plugins directory and perform the same steps I performed above (as root) and then I start with a new ~/.licq directory just in case the old one is not compatible. Also, when you are done, re-export your regular QT directory if you cannot use QT 2.00 routinely. If you are using KDE 1.1.1, that's you. -- Andrew I was able to complie .70 and it miraculously fixed the problem. Thank you so much. Those options to configure were what I needed apparantly. Works like a champ now! Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
RE: Weird ICQ problems
On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? I started having a problem like the one you describe with Licq .70h so I went back to the stable version a few days ago and the problem stopped. I have no idea what happened, but I just downloaded (yesterday) the NEW stable Licq release (version .70 final) and it works great. You will have to install QT 2.0 to install the plugin for this version, though. I just re-export QT 1.44 after I am done compiling the plugin. -- Andrew
Re: Weird ICQ problems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than ^ ^^ once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? What specifically does the kernel (or qt, etc) compile 'crash' with? -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstien
RE: Weird ICQ problems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? I started having a problem like the one you describe with Licq .70h so I went back to the stable version a few days ago and the problem stopped. I have no idea what happened, but I just downloaded (yesterday) the NEW stable Licq release (version .70 final) and it works great. You will have to install QT 2.0 to install the plugin for this version, though. I just re-export QT 1.44 after I am done compiling the plugin. How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable version) to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping that a new version will fix the problem, but currently, and version I try (including .61 which is what started the problem) will act the same. I am hoping .70 will fix it, but don't have too much hope. I've re-complied and re-installed .61 about 3 or 4 times and the problem hasn't gone away. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
Re: Weird ICQ problems
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than ^ ^^ once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? What specifically does the kernel (or qt, etc) compile 'crash' with? By crash I mean my machine would hang and I'd have to hit the reset button. This caused linux to fsck the drives and of course there'd be a lot of problems. A couple of times fsck couldn't fix it automatically and I had to run fsck manually. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. |
RE: Weird ICQ problems
On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable version) to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping that a new version will fix the problem, but currently, and version I try (including .61 which is what started the problem) will act the same. I am hoping .70 will fix it, but don't have too much hope. I've re-complied and re-installed .61 about 3 or 4 times and the problem hasn't gone away. I see now that I misunderstood one thing. My machine was not crashing, just Licq was crashing. I am a KDE user, so I had to leave QT 1.44 in place in /usr/local/qt. I have installed Qt 2.01 in /usr/local/qt-2.01 First, I do: export QTDIR=/usr/local/qt-2.01 I untar the Licq tarball and cd into Licq-0.70 and then ./configure --with-qt-includes=/usr/local/qt-2.01 \ --with-qt-libraries=/usr/local/qt-2.01 [enter] when that is done: make make install When that is all done, I cd to the plugins directory and perform the same steps I performed above (as root) and then I start with a new ~/.licq directory just in case the old one is not compatible. Also, when you are done, re-export your regular QT directory if you cannot use QT 2.00 routinely. If you are using KDE 1.1.1, that's you. -- Andrew
Re: Weird ICQ problems
I filed a bug report against licq for this, and the maintainer told me he had uploaded .7 to incoming, and now we just wait for Muoa (right?) the ftp maintainer to move it around a bit, then apt-get upgrade should install it for us -- possibly with the bugfix included. Keep an eye out for it. :) On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:52:12AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online. GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than once fsck on bootup wouldn't be able to fix it and I'd have to fsck the drive manually. After these crashes is when the ICQ clones started crashing after it logs on. What I'm wondering is if one of the fscks could've deleted or damaged something the ICQ clones use? If so, does anyone have any idea what? I am considering re-formatting and re-installing Debian, but I don't really want to seeing as how I've spent so much time configuring this already. Does anyone have any ideas of things to try? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | A REAL Man's OS! forever. I'm outta here. | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
