Re: Assorted bugs
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:10:04PM -0500, Randy Gobbel wrote:
> I've finally gotten around to moving my day-to-day PowerPC Linux environment
> over to Debian. Although it's sort of working, I'm running into lots of
> problems. Any insight as to what's going on would be appreciated. I'm also
> unsure how to deal with reporting these, since almost all of them are clearly
> platform-specific. It seems like the standard bug report form needs a field
> for the platform, now that there are so many different ones.
>
> I'm using Sven's X packages of January 20 (3.3.3.1-0.2), downloaded from
> sunsite.auc.dk (thanks, Sven!).
>
> I'm not running on my Debian PowerPC setup at the moment, so some of these are
> less detailed than I'd like, but (some of) the things I've run into are:
>
> --In X, the backspace key doesn't work in emacs--just produces a beep.
> --ssh postinst dies with a missing symbol in libgmp2.
I swear, Dale is really stinking unresponsive. I'm on the verge of
NMUing libgmp2. Maybe this week.
> --netscape dependencies are seriously broken. All of the netscape packages
> depend on nonexistent "netscape-base" packages. There's a package in contrib
> whose name is close, but not right.
netscape-base should exist. We'll get back to netscape.
> --After running fix961212 on my existing netscape (4.08), it runs, but dies
> with a Bus Error very quickly--all I have to do to kill it is try to open the
> preferences dialog. I have managed to get the old unfixed netscape working by
> using chroot, but that's an enormous pain. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't
> seem to be sufficient. The fixed netscape still wants libstdc++.so.2.8.0.
> Could that be part of the problem, and is there a way to fix that?
We really don't know. Bad things are netscape.
> --rlogind doesn't work, complains "out of ptys".
Do you have a /dev/pts filesystem mounted and a /dev/ptmx?
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
(That needs kernel support)
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer |
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