No LOCALE support with X-Server/Libs
Dear Audience,
using Debian Potato 2.2r4 on my machine, I experience reproducible
crashes of Netscape on startup with following message:
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> netscape
netscape: locale `C' not supported.
Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly?
Bus error
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This happens, since I upgraded from 2.2r0 to 2.2r4. Other applications are
broken too since then, all complaining about locales.
Any hints, what $XNLSPATH means (i.e. what to set it to)?
This packages are installed:
ii xlib6 3.3.6-11potato32 shared libraries required by libc5 X clients
ri xlib6g 3.3.6-11potato32 shared libraries required by X clients
ri xlib6g-dev 3.3.6-11potato32 include files and libraries for X client develop
ii xfree86-common 3.3.6-11potato32 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
ii xserver-3dlabs 3.3.6-11potato32 X server for 3DLabs GLINT and Permedia-based gra...
ii libc5 5.4.46-3 The Linux C library version 5
ii libc5-altdev 5.4.46-3 The Linux C library version 5
ii libc6 2.2.4-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone dat
ii libc6-dev 2.2.4-3 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header
(did I miss anything relevant?)
- the desired state "r" stems from an atempt to remove the packages, as
I wanted to install XFree86 4.1.0 from scratch wich didn't work, since
I couldn't create a valid configuration file (help also appreciated).
(As you can see above, I use an Elsa GLoria L/MX 816 card and the appropriate
X-Server. I wanted the promised acceleration.)
One major problem now is the impossibility to check, whether I overwrote anything,
because these Debian packages have no MD5-sums!
(though I made a backup of /etc/X11 and /urs/X11R6 before the 4.1.0 trial
and restored it)
MD5 SUMS SHOULD BE MANDATORY IN ANY PACKAGE![(@*/->#&@~%])
(where is the right place for this and other kind suggestions
regarding packaging?;-)
BTW: If I want to make sure, that all packages are taken from 2.2r4 and
not from 2.2r0, what's the correct way to do this (in the light of forthcoming 2.2r5)?
- Is there a way to tell, whence a certain installed package came?
(distro, alien, home-brew,...)
My desktop now is KDE 2.2.1, Qt 2.3.1 compiled from scratch, but Netscape
didn't work with the old KDE either.
Please do respond to my email adress as well, since I have not subscribed to
debian-devel@lists.debian.org.
With Best Regards,
Armin
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