Thank you for the reply, Amanda. I see the renamed files in /sbin. I
did install from download. My XF86Config-4 already had the
backingstore line from when I was using version 2, so no problem.
Bob
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:08:59AM -0400, Amanda Owens wrote:
> Hello Bob,
>
> We have a modified insmod and rmmod that install the modules - once
> in /sbin they should be renamed to insmod_ver and rmmod_ver and your
> original insmod/rmmod should still be there.
>
> The fix_X_config script is used to fix the backingstore problem in
> X somewhat automagically. From the error message, it looks like
> maybe you are installing from download, and the file wasn't acutally
> found on the server. I'm not sure why this might be, and I'll see it
> is looked into. Is this an online/download installation or did you
> install from CD?
>
> Regards,
> Amanda
>
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > In reviewing /root/w4l-install.log, I see:
> >
> > Jun 04 23:09:43 panel_pkg_install.c:438 cpModUtils - Successfully
> > moved new insmod to /sbin.
> > Jun 04 23:09:43 panel_pkg_install.c:461 cpModUtils - Successfully
> > moved new rmmod to /sbin.
> > Jun 04 23:09:43 panel_pkg_install.c:502 cpModUtils - Successfully
> > moved new fix_X_config to /sbin.
> >
> > This looked like the installation had replaced some of my existing
> > system utilities before the package was even installed.
> >
> > However from the datestamp, both insmod and rmmod (a symlink) look like
> > they are still my original versions. There was a /sbin/fix_X_config
> > created, however it is an HTML document consisting of an error message:
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> > <HTML><HEAD>
> > <TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
> > </HEAD><BODY>
> > <H1>Not Found</H1>
> > The requested URL /ezinstall/LINUX/tools/fix_X_config was not found on
> > this server.<P>
> > <P>Additionally, a 401 Authorization Required
> > error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle
> > the request.
> > <HR>
> > <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.14 Server at updates.netraverse.com Port
> > 443</ADDRESS>
> > </BODY></HTML>
> >
> > What's going on here? No package installation should mess with
> > existing programs belonging to other packages. Nor should error
> > messages end up in /sbin.
> >
> > Bob
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