Thanks for these - they're all known problems with the release
candidate which I'm working on correcting now. Many of these problems
stem from the fact that I don't have an "official" XFree86 release for
4.0 and I just threw my own together here with less than optimal
results. :-)
- Jordan
> Hello:
>
> I tried to install 4.0-RC on my computer last night and ran into some
> trouble. I just wanted to convey the problems so that they can be fixed
> before release. I just subscribed to this list, and the archives are
> down, so I apologize if this has already been covered.
>
> Here goes...
>
> My system is a Pentium MMX 233MHz on an Asus Intel Triton2-based
> motherboard (forget the model #), 64MB of EDO RAM, Tekram 390 (Symbios
> 875) UWSCSI board, IBM UWSCSI 9GB disk, Mitsumi 8x IDE CDROM, Iomega IDE
> ZIP, Creative SB 64AWE, WD8013 NIC.
>
> Here are the problems I had during the installation (Novice install).
> 1) This may be intended, but no PCI devices show up in the visual
> kernel configuration screen.
> 2) The whole installation went fine until it asked if I wanted Linux
> compatibility. I answered Yes, but it said that it couldn't find the
> package 'linux_base'.
> 3) When it asked if I wanted to configure the X server, and I said Yes,
> it immediately displayed a dialog box telling me something to the effect
> that X configuration has failed and asked if I wanted to try again. No
> amount of trying again works.
> 4) An error message on the second (ALT-F2) virtual terminal said
> something like this: "Shared object libXThrStub.so.6 not found". I'm
> not sure when in the installation this appeared.
> 5) When I was asked to pick a Window Manager, it failed because of
> dependencies on xfree86-3.3.6 (sp?). The X servers were installed, but
> I guess this fact wasn't registered.
> 6) During package installation, some strange categories appeared in the
> list, for example '.3' was the first category in the list. It had "No
> Description available" or something to that effect next to it.
>
> I didn't bother keeping 4.0 on the machine because I didn't want to
> fiddle with getting things straightened out manually, mainly because I
> wouldn't know how. Just wanted to let you folks know. Please let me
> know if I need to report this some other way.
>
> --
> PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator
> Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!!
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