On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 06:11:49AM +0000, John Leget wrote: > Thanx but im aware of that, i ran setup for root and normal user so i > can run it as either if need be. > > Anyway it used to work but somewhere along the line with upgrades it > broke :(. So i downloaded the latest SO from sun etc...... :(
Were you running SO5.0? It's known to have many problems. Apparently there were some calls to internal routines of the C lib that have changed (or so I've been told). > > cheers. > > PS i still dont have an answer :does anyone have it running on potato ?. > > PS.PS yes... yes... i know its unstable but it has the files i would > otherwise have to keep up with manually, anyway i still prefer potato to > windows by a long shot >;0) > I have SO5.1a running fine for a few months now on a potato box. Got it from the Sun website a couple months ago. Many fewer hiccups than version 5.0. If SO5.1 still doesn't work for you, maybe try an strace to find out where it chokes. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
