Re: Unidentified subject!
Moin,
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:53:08PM +0000, Lee Elliott wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I've recently installed Potato/unstable on my A1200/060 to gain some
> experience with Debian prior to putting together a dual x86 cpu system
> to run the next version of my 3D S/W on. I've installed everything via
> dselect, downloading from ftp mirrors and a couple of days ago I udated
> the package list and ended up with version 2.1.5-2 of the menu package,
> amongst others. Since I installed this package, the update-menus
> function produces a Segmentation Fault while processing the
> 'package'.postinst hooks/scripts/? called by dselect/dpkg when
> installing/removing other software packages if they appear to have/use
> menus (sounds reasonable).
>
> If I remove the menu package then I'm able to install/config/remove
> without errors.
same here, update-menus segfaults. Cost me an hour yesterday... found no
fix.
> I downloaded the "How to report a bug in Debian" doc - I have it in
> front of me - but I'm not sure if this is a bug or a porting problem,
> and if they should be treated differently. I would imagine a seg fault
> to be platform specific and therefore not a bug but a porting problem.
Im not sure, the changelog says a segfault bug was removed, but it seems on
m68k it was only just introduced.
> I've also looked at the FAQ list at www.debian.org and checked the bug
> tracking list for menu bugs but found nothing that seemed relevent.
Then file a bug.
> Also, I know there are several priorities of bug, but I couldn't find
> anything that actually defined them.
normal is ok (ie dont set the priority). Usually the maintainer does not
react faster if its important. Here it may be important (I had to remove
menu also), but dont send important bugs when you really need to. You can
change the severity later.
Package: menu
Version: 2.1.5-2
update-menus segfaults on m68k... blabla bla, describe your system (use the
bug command?)
mail to: "Bug Tracking System" <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Finally, is there any 'early-warning' mechanism to warn other users of
> potential problems with new S/W versions, such as this, so they can be
> prepared? I've been looking into this for a few days now (couple of
> hours each evening that is - I work during the day) to try to ensure it
> wasn't something I did, being a newbie, but I suspected the problem was
> with the new menu, and could have issued a warning the evening I
> installed it.
If you run unstable youre on your own. You can post here and warn people.
You can file a bug, that the package has to be fixed, removed, fix it
yourself. but I dont know of any mechanism stopping others from installing a
particular package.
Christian
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