Re: fortune problems?
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:01:41PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 05:02:44PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote:
> > > For some reason, when I run fortune I get this message:
> > >
> > > fortune: no place to put residual probability (0%)
> > >
> > > This happened after I ran the newest wine which caused a kernel panic. I
> > > had to do a hard reboot to get the syatem back. Does anyone know why this
> > > is happening or how to fix it?
> >
> > I had the same problem after upgrading to the lates version of fortune. I
> > fixed it by deleteing /usr/local/share/fortune.
> >
> Hi Dan,
>
> i don't have such a file... but the same symptoms...
>
> Ingo Reimann
Sorry, I got the directory path wrong. Try removing
/usr/local/share/games/fortunes
instead.
More details about what's actually going wrong can be found in the bug
report #47043. Looks like a lot of people got hit by this one judging by
the number of duplicate bugs.
Dan
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