So wrote Justin Pryzby on Thursday, 9 March 2006: > Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:38:19 -0500 > From: Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#356122: lynx is unusable in sid > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:31:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So wrote Justin Pryzby on Thursday, 9 March 2006: > > > Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:35:21 -0500 > > > From: Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Bug#356122: lynx is unusable in sid > > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:46:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:17:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Package: lynx > > > > > > Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1 > > > > > > Severity: high > > > > > > > > > > > Lynx has some serious problem. When it is started from the > > > > > > command-line, is simply displays a blank screen with the text at the > > > > > > bottom: > > > > > > > > > > > > desc=microsoft D)ownload, or C)ancel > > > > > My lynx does no such thing > > > > > > > > > > > this almost looks like some kind of malicious trojan or something! > > > > > Please send the output of: > > > > > > > > > $ readlink `which lynx` > > > > ../../etc/alternatives/lynx > > > This is mildly strange; I have > > > $ readlink `which lynx` > > > /etc/alternatives/lynx > > > > yes I use the symlinks command to convert absolute links to relative > Could you expand on what you mean by this?
the only difference between ../../etc/alternatives/lynx and /etc/alternatives/lynx is that the former is a link relative to CWD and the former is an absolute link. absolute links are actually no-no's since they can cause problems, e.g. if you mirror a filesystem somewhere. its the same difference as if you were to cd /usr/bin. from there you could do: ls -la /etc/alternatives/lynx or else ls -la ../../etc/alternatives/lynx > > > i did it but the behavior of lynx hasn't changed > Please send now the output of: > > dpkg -l libbz2-1.0 libc6 libgnutls11 libncursesw5 zlib1g > # dpkg -l libbz2-1.0 libc6 libgnutls11 libncursesw5 zlib1g Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-2 high-quality block-sorting file compressor l ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-14 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal handling (wide ii zlib1g 1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
