SUMMARY: Various problems with 1.1
Thanks for all who responded to my problems; here's a brief summary of
the responses.
>>>>> In mail dated Tue, 23 Apr 96 11:30:30 BST, I said:
DMS> 1. On boot, I get messages like
DMS> No dependency information for module /lib/modules/current/fs/nfs.o
Bruce Perens suggested "depmod -a" which might work, but I've been
playing around with new kernels since then which confused the issue.
I haven't been able to find any definitive explanation of the use of
modules; there's a bit in the Kernel HOWTO and the manpage for depmod
helps, but a Module HOWTO explaining how to set up /lib/modules and
/etc/conf.modules would be useful, IMO.
DMS> 2. The console seems to be configured for a US rather than a UK
DMS> keyboard.
Apparently, this is a Debian bug; /etc/init.d/console isn't run at
boot time. I'll get around this by sticking it in rc.local (until the
next release).
DMS> 3. I've had to install XFree3.1.2D to support my Mach64 card.
DMS> Works fine, except xterm won't run -- can't find libtermcap.so.2.
The solution (suggested by many people) is to install the Debian X
distribution, and install just the 3.1.2D server in /usr/local/bin,
and editing /etc/X11/Xserver to point to it. The original problem is
that the 3.1.2D xterm is linked against termcap; it may be an idea for
Debian to provide a termcap lib for compatibility.
DMS> 4. Dselect keeps on complaining about dpkg (currently 1.1.5aout),
DMS> because (I think) it depends on the a.out C libraries which
DMS> conflict with other stuff. I've put it on hold to avoid the
DMS> problem, but shouldn't there be an ELF version of dpkg available?
There's one in experimental, apparently. This is a real problem for
new users of dselect such as myself, though: dpkg depends on libc or
libc4, and it's difficult to select the right combination of C
libraries using dselect with this dependency in place.
DMS> 5. Somehow I seemed to end up with a fairly corrupted filesystem
This is just a new fsck detencting problems the only one didn't
(mostly "non-zero dtime") -- it hasn't happened since.
DMS> 6. Is it possible to have more than one version of a package
DMS> installed at once?
Generally, no, but I think it would be a good idea for some packages
such as `source'.
I also asked:
>>>>> In mail dated Tue, 23 Apr 96 12:35:06 BST, I said:
DMS> After my upgrade to 1.1, running gcc on even the simplest "hello
DMS> world" program gets the following:
DMS> ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
This was caused by not installing libc5-dev. When upgrading to 1.1,
the right thing to do is:
* Remove libc (from stable)
* Install libc4 (from unstable, to support dpkg)
* Install libc5 and libc5-dev
This is just about impossible to do with dselect due to all the
conflicts caused; it's probably better done with dpkg itself.
# Dave
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David M. Smith, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University
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