Re: Upgrade bo-> hamm, Problems !
It looks there is some trouble with the gpm daemon. See if it is running
and
try killing it to see whether it makes any difference.
George
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Sindelfingen Office wrote: ~
> Hi there.
>
> during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the
> frozen- tree on ftp.debian) with the aid of the autoup script.
> Surprisingly everything went fine with no bigger problems. But when i
> tried to start the menuconfig programm to compile a new kernel it failed
> with the error message below :
>
> Script started on Mon Jun 8 09:37:01 1998
> asterix# cd /usr/src/ln inux
> asterix# mkae ake menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/scripts/lxdialog'
> gcc -O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"
> -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
> In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> asterix# exit
> exit
>
> Script done on Mon Jun 8 09:37:19 1998
>
> An older message on this list stated that i need
> ncurses3.0-altdev_1.9.9e-2.1.deb from the oldlibs section. Ok, i
> installed it
> but menuconfig is still failing. I saw that the curses.h header file is
> under /usr/include/i486-libc1. How can i tell the system where to find
> the old ncurses header files ?
>
> The other problem is that i cannot login with xdm any more. Neither as
> root nor as a normal user. I updated the following x11 packages :
>
> xaw3dg_1.3-6.2.deb
> xext_3.3.2.1-1.deb
> xfnt100_3.3.2.1-1.deb
> xfnt75_3.3.2.1-1.deb
> xfntbase_3.3.2.1-1.deb
> xfntpex_3.3.2-4.deb
> xfntscl_3.3.2-4.deb
> xlib6g_3.3.2.1-1.deb
> xpm4g_3.4j-0.6.deb
> xserver-s3_3.3.2.1-1.deb
> xserver-vga16_3.3.2.1-1.deb
> xviewg_3.2p1.4-3.deb
>
> After the login the X server immediately shuts down and xdm comes up
> again. Could it be that there's a problem with the
> authentication procedure ? I think i saw a program xauth running with
> the parameters A:0 -a ..something - shoulnd't it be 0:0 ?
>
> Can anybody point me to some documents describing the procedure how the X
> window server is started ? (especially with Debian)
>
> XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: March 2 1998
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
> than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
> problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
> Operating System: Linux 2.0.32 i686 [ELF]
> Configured drivers:
> S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
> newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic
> (using VT number 7)
>
> XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config
> (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
> (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(de)" (overrides other XKB settings)
> (**) Mouse: type: MouseSystems, device: /dev/gpmdata, baudrate: 1200
> (**) Mouse: buttons: 3, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms)
> (**) S3: Graphics device ID: "Elsa 1000Trio 64/V+"
> (**) S3: Monitor ID: "Sony 15 Zoll Multiscan"
> .
> .
> .
> (--) S3: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted.
> (**) FontPath set to
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R
> 6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
> (--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 40, Linear FB @ 0xf4000000
> (--) S3: chipset: Trio64V+ rev. 41
> (--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio
> (--) S3: card type: PCI
> (--) S3: videoram: 2048k
> WARNING: Did not detect a ramdac of type "s3_gendac" as specified!
> (**) S3: Ramdac type: s3gendac
> (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 MHz
> (**) S3: Using S3 Gendac/SDAC programmable clock (MCLK 4.990 MHz)
> (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 110.000 MHz
> .
> .
> .
> (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (1216,1025) for expanding pixmaps
> (--) S3: Using 8 planes of 1216x613 at (0,1025) aligned 8 as font cache
> System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> -xkm -m de -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp
> "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server"
> keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm'
> Warning: /dev/gpmdata unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid
> argument)
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Please send your response NOT to the original senders email address. Send
> it to "sfr@orbotech.co.il" as i cannot use the Netscape email client at
> the moment.
>
> bye, Stefan Frank
>
>
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