absolutely rediculous. it's a GPL free source open system
your supposed to use it in your SPARE time not your business time.
you are NOT supposed to using it for private development without
funding. perhaps if a proffesor, paid for such things, and have chosen
to do so (ie, GRUB is a good ex
Mike Gabriel wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mike Gabriel
* Package name: libx11-keybord-perl
Version : 1.4
Upstream Author : Erick Calder
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/X11-Keyboard
* License : Expat
Programming Lang: Perl
Descripti
even if i want to contribute pathches and etc
i don't have a mainframe to recompile all breakage and...
the ammount of breakage is too daunting to shake a stick at
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"inheirited" charge of historic softwares
yes me to i used to use sendmail in past for internet mail and or
local mail. there never was a "problem" except that certain people
(who are promoting other mail programs) keep trying to destroy it.
i'm not a maintainer (yet? i have no passwords microsoft didn't
steal/block me from using)
>
What do you mean by "a TTY console during the installation"?
Lowering the severity anyway as I don't think this is a bug (if one)
that affects all installs.
With all the install problems reports? I would certainly expect
having to open up a shell to fix things to install MORE THAN EVER.
i like anything that helps fresh meat install without hours of crap ! :)
personaly i wish you could add this in "contributions" as working with a particular version of
debian (an important aspect for dist. tars) and do so without allot of admin approval.
thanks all, -- John
Brian Potkin wrot
hi i'm not a DM
yea but the script installs awk/mawk before any depends and it gets in
reguardless.
try not calling out awk as depends since that is pre-scripted (it's to get dpkg
running i think)
why force didn't work i'm unsure
Have Fun !
-- John
Adrian Ban wrote:
Package: debootstrap
V
grub-mkrescue images can be dd'ed to floppy when small enough
(--compression=xz --diet AFAIR)
Yes it can. And you can insmod and boot. It's just an unusable pain without a
dependancy resolver
(which won't dd due to code choices in grub2 additions, rather it will but part b won't find part
cannot rewrite the MB
R. there are some features of Super GRUB Disk based on GRUB legacy that will ne
ver be included in Super GRUB2 Disk
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
First of all lumping several problems into same mail and not providing
decent detail for any of
Robert Luberda wrote:
John Hendrickson wrote:
Hi there!
/*
* BUG for realpath_(1) (not realpathS(1))
*
* $ realpath /var/spool/mail/file/..
* /mnt/sda2/home/var/mail
*
* BUG you can't ".." a file: not supposed to be able to
* (it will then trick a script into treating file like a
Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-14
Boot method: downloaded 52 CDs, mounted loopback
Image version: squeeze 6.0.1
Date: 12-12-2011
Machine: bios doesn't support boot from usb or lan. no CD drive.
Processor: amd64
Memory: 256m
Partitions: a root partion, an empty root partiion, the re
Put code in a kernel but don't want kernel params, sysctl, /proc, or /sysfs to wake it? Instead
wishing modprobe will wake it ?? Sorry I interrupted :) - John
Unlike the modprobe utility from module-init-tools, busybox' version
fails for built-in modules:
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I hate to say anything no knowing the full story. I was just installing.
The initrd.gz off netinst CD does has depmod. If you use it then your ext4 module loads right?
Without depmod you could edit the modules.dep et al files with nano and that should work too, if I
remember correctly.
I ha
"If timidity doesn't get IPv6 support soon" ?
I don't see IPv6 as important. It's a major maintenance burden (a hack to firewall, configure,
...), IPSs use it to dominate ISP sales, and so far no one claims to have a final spec on it.
when is IPv4 over IPv6 a sin? are bsd sockets a sin (they
not that i'm multi-lingual (i use google to translate!)
don't we get all .mo avail. in packages already? (i hope)
# locate "*.mo" | wc
13341 13341 648305
... and if build/tar admins say "choose another method" why not try asking them
what?
can't i delete .mo locally if i'm bitwise despe
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
As to skipping releases - we can't all be continual updaters :)
But you can use http://archive.debian.org/, no?
:) funny. but hey! I cna't access my government without an updated web
browser.
it can lead to R
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
[ dropped debian-dpkg, since the question is on the level higher, as
Jonathan IIRC pointed already in threads on debian-dpkg@ ]
Hi Jonathan, John and Sara,
On 2011-07-09 20:12, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
[...] The heuristic, roughly speaking, is
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Package: cupt
Version: 2.1.1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
The following report is distilled from several messages from John
Hendrickson.
Sometimes he likes to upgrade the whole system straight from Debian
release N to N+4 or so. Yes, I know that's not supported. Yes, a
bette
rununtil you get it sorted out why...
there are program(s) to refresh vga text mode / save restore vesa. run
it and you'll have your text terminal.
note because VT depends on kernel etc you problem might depend on how
you start x, not just X drivers or a flaky video card
Enno Deimel wrote
diagnosis by deletion ?? "it seemed to work after deletion". that's
crazy - simply crazy. an it should be there if the wrong thing is on
7100 of course of course.
people manage that themselves if the new XML font junk fails to - delete
it it will be back in
Stuart Scharf wrote:
I also
(1), and reboot is never executed.
you didn't delete any rc.d scripts in /etc/ did you?
John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
I'm not a debian bug handler but...
try "shutdown -t0 -r now" and re-submit if it doesn't work (I think
specifying time is required?)
C
I'm not a debian bug handler but...
try "shutdown -t0 -r now" and re-submit if it doesn't work (I think
specifying time is required?)
Christoph Pleger wrote:
Package: general
Severity: normal
Hello,
when I am logged in (by ssh or on tty1-tty6) as root on the machine where I am
writing this
I use xmodmap. No way is it obsolete. It's who's job? To break unix
software by making time honored standards "obsolete" a little at a time?
- John
jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
OK,
setxkbmap -option caps:none
worked. Thanks!
"CB" == Cyril Brulebois writes:
CB> Well, nobody bothered to se
but you can set the sync modes before X startup or after - so saying it
is UBUNTU's error is wrong. it is Ubuntu's correctness to use the
better frequencies maybe
VERY NORMAL.
I have used vga extended cables or switchbox, but not with that exact
card - and using them reduces quality
video
Why blame X ?
many desktops / window managers will send X a HUP signal on exit. a bad
application might even do it.
First show was closed by UNIX or X itself decided to exit.
Michal Suchanek wrote:
Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.9.99.903-1
Followup-For: Bug #618622
Still a proble
You said radeon right? I don't have that but here's some tips.
/usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg (that's the name of your "real X server")
automatically makes a config (example /etc/X11/Xorg-config-4).
What you want is to run Xorg with option to save the config. Editing
that config you'll see mouse, keyb
stupid but I must say...
the video triangle (chip interfaces, documentation, sheer number of "new
plans" and lack of drivers) is worse than the bermuda triangle !
Julien Viard de Galbert wrote:
CCing the bug Back, I guess your point of view might be shared by other
users.
On Mon, Mar 14, 201
my experience with that is you *might* have a memory problem with your
video card
with the lockup statement included that adds to the possibility that
might be so
on the other hand I can't see it so you might just need graphics libs
needing to be re-installed
Best is if you can try a "know
OH DANG it!
I didn't see your doing this from a gdm desktop. NEVER MIND.
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
[adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm]
FYI, libxt/1:1.1.0-1 also breaks xterm: XAUTHORITY is removed from the
environment, meaning that I can no longer start X applications from
xterm when g
hi I wrote www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/
one reason I've used xdm for so long is that having my environment in
xterm was more important to me than how X got started
I think the C-coded display managers out there don't bother with
/etc/profile or ~/.profile like a login should - bu
if you don't mind my butting in
I notice when I start gdm xdm has *no* environment.
I have no comment on whether this or that app uses that particular env.
var. though.
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
[adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm]
good part of them once.
Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 19:49 -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
wrote:
I haven't heard of many chips that won't hang given the wrong
instructsion whether it's GPU or keyboard controller.
Of course. This is why the kerne
I haven't heard of many chips that won't hang given the wrong
instructsion whether it's GPU or keyboard controller. Sounds like more
than a driver issue but a choice of driver issue. How are you going to
have it both ways without an ammount of care you have no time for?
having interrupting a
I'll restate the obvious. note I'm not part of xserver-xorg-video-vesa
team - so look for more answers.
make sure your linux kernel has radeon support. make sure X loads the
modules. make sure X.org supports the chipset that is actually on the card.
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mail is working.
I had the problems you speak of at one time. I had *thought* my gnome
were installed but infact the libs were not all installed correctly.
Was it an installer problem? I don't remember - but the problem had
Package: cmucl
Version: 18e-10
Severity: normal
I consider cmucl to be the *best* of gcl and clisp because of it's
stability. However.
* cmucl binary names "lisp.core" using strings(1) but you distribute the
file as lisp-dist.core.
* only platform is i386
* startup shows compile corruption due
Package: cmucl
Version: 18e-10
Severity: normal
In the last report I erroneously stated when starting cmucl there were
errors shown (example show before below).
lisp -load /usr/lib/cmucl/lisp-dist.core # ... is *wrong*
lisp -core /usr/lib/cmucl/lisp-dist.core # ... is "right" and does work
How
Package: doc-iana
Version: 2003.07-1
Severity: important
This package is COMPLETELY BOGUS.
All the web page links are broken and either point nowhere or
point to www.iana.org
The "best" thing, if there is any, in this broken package is an
OUT DATED by TWO YEARS, INCOMPLETE, port number list.
Th
Package: glut-doc
Version: 3.7-25
Severity: important
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I have no manpages for glut. And before I upgraded to sarge I *had*
them. ie, man glutReshapeWindow
Its a pet peive: since I have a fully written opengl app to port to
linux and plan to use GLUT for the
hope) most things found in the source.
I've done a bit of lower level graphics in the past.
Tell me if you have any prerequisite skills / experience you
need for the next maintainer.
I've programmed on and off for 15 yrs.
I have a degree in science.
Thanks,
John D
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(Include the
n!
(And how can you with an MS EULA that comes with your new
Visuall C++ kit telling your code isn't yours to publish because it
contains MS inserted "licensed" material?) ... its pure evil.
John D. Hendrickson
Unix - live free or die ;)
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(exp
dn't be there unless
it specifically says it doesn't apply to linux in bin or src.
I hate to be wordy and meantion it. But I did see one of Sun's
programmers say on GMU-TV "Yes - for the right price we'd sell software
to Microsoft". And Sun has, often, recieved
th, GPL code, and
brotherhood to your own; unix users. And that is where the Lindows guy went
wrong. He trusted to faith what is not a matter faith. And he failed
to (though I would have at his age) look into the Oracle of the past
still in the aged Forums on the internet. It was called war th
e are no good unless you like wasting time on win32 hacked things:
spicep08s (not spice3f5...), xosKope, ngspice (I'm still looking for spice3f !!)
Have fun!
John D. Hendrickson
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cdrom: since that is apparently where my problems started. Wanting sarge on
cdrom. And I think it's kinda silly it's so hard. But I understand why it is
hard.
Have Fun!
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