On Wednesday 28 February 2001 04:14, Rick Cook wrote: And now he is answering himself.
> > Since I don't really know how that may have manifested itself over the last > several days, it is possible that some of the binary-powerpc packages are > corrupted. > After removing the offending memory, doing a full re-install of 2.2r2, an apt-get dselect-upgrade (with the selections exported from the old database), apt-get dist-upgrade, I am approximately back to my pre-DIMM failure state. I obviously have not yet tested everything, but the things I stumbled over quickly seem to be gone. They must have been gremlins introduced to my filesystems by the failing DIMM. The only package I found that would not install was kfilereplace. After rebuilding it tonight, it still doesn't install: Setting up kfilereplace (0.6.0-0.potato2) ... cannot open dhelp file '/usr/doc/kfilereplace/html/.dhelp': at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. dpkg: error processing kfilereplace (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Any one who is using the binary-powerpc packages, please send bug reports > my way first. It may be that the build process had a memory error... > I think any powerpc users should still mail me reports of any anomalies they run across. > > The rest of the bad news is that this will probably delay the potato ISO > image creation process. > Other than maintaining my rsync tree (not on the powerpc), I have not accomplished anything toward completing the binary-powerpc tree to support the ISO image goal. Rick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
