Terminal problems
Hello Everyone, I am back. After trying a few different distributions
of linux, and using gentoo for a while, I have found that I was missing
debian. Right now I am having actually a few things that are puzzling
me. I am running Debian unstable (Sid) but attempting to build most of
it with apt-get source and such.
This brings me to my first question. Has anyone used apt-get source or
dpkg-buildpackage to compile sid lately?
when I first compiled automake the build went fine, but I couldn't
install because of autoconf wasn't installed.
Then I did the apt-get source --build autoconf and I had unmet
dependencies for that.
so I did apt-get build-dep autoconf and installed m4 automake-1.9 and
one or two others. Now neither autoconf nor automake will build. I
built autoconf-2.59 on my own, just to see if that would compile, and it
did. the trouble seems to be that nothing in the autoconf-2.59a/lib
directory seems to be getting built during the compile phase, and
automake, I haven't even began to look at yet.
wmaker for some reason just catches a signal 11 and quits when xorg
starts. I used the source package and compiled that, and I get the same
results. xfce4 and twm work, but whenever I open a terminal in them, the
background and forground is blacked out, unless I login with a failsafe
terminal and then star twm or xfce4-session, and still irc is blacked
out when I open that.
Looking at the failsafe terminal output I keep getting the massage
xterm: Cannot allocute color "whatever" sometimes green, somtimes
black, I think I have seen every color after this warning at one point
or another
I did dist-upgrade from stable, so maybe there is something crossing
between xfree86 and xorg?
Like I said this is just blowing my min, and I am out of ideas, and
thankyou in advance for any help.
--Mike S
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